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Reforesting State Lands 



On account of the great demand for trees by our land owners this work 

 was practically abandoned for the present year. 



At the Paul Smith's plantations, 7,000 Scotch pine transplants were 

 set, in fail places, by the man watching the plantation during the spring. 



A plantation of 60,000 trees was made on the land acquired for the 

 Delaware Fish Hatchery, near Margaret ville, to protect the water supply. 

 This is the second plantation on State land in the Catskills. 



At Chubb Hill (near Lake Placid) 30,000 trees were planted and the 

 area of this plantation increased twenty-five acres. 



During the summer our plantations have been surveyed and carefully 

 mapped for future reference. 



All our plantations are making a very satisfactory growth. 



Seed Spot 



The seed spot is, next to broadcast seed sowing, the simplest method of 

 artificial reforesting. It consists essentially in preparing little spots, usually 

 about one foot in diameter, regularly over the field that is to be reforested. 

 This plan of artificial reforesting does not require any nursery for propa- 

 gating the trees because the seed is planted where it is desired to grow the 

 future tree. In 1904 about ten acres of seed spots were made at Chubb 

 Hill, near Lake Placid. The work was done in the fall with white pine seed 

 gathered the same season. In 1905 forty-two acres were made in our planta- 

 tion north of Paul Smiths and at this time white and Scotch pine were used. 

 In 1906 about eleven acres more of seed spot were made in this same planta- 

 tion when Norway, white, native red and Douglas spruce, also some balsam 

 and Norway pine seed was used. The seed spots were further increased 

 by about thirty acres in 1907 when several kinds of pine, spruce and other 

 coniferous seeds were used. 



Several kinds of seed spots have been made, viz. : large spots, small 

 spots, hole hillocks, and unprepared ground. The large and small spots 

 were made by loosening up the soil and preparing a small clean seed bed, 

 in the former case from 12 to 15 inches in diameter, while in the latter about 

 6 inches in diameter. The hole hillocks were made by overturning a large 



