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will also be given a trial. Of American species not native to the Adirondacks, the 

 Douglas Spruce from Colorado will be favored, as a promising importation, and 

 other species will at least be put on trial. Of hardwoods, it is questionable whether 

 additions may be made of special value, although the hardiness of some will be 

 tested. 



Sowing the seed instead of planting may also be tried, although the probability is 

 that, with the seasons so uncertain, the protection that can be given in the nursery, 

 where the young seedlings are helped over the first tender years, will insure better 

 success from the use of plants. It was intended to secure the seed material of 

 White Pine and Spruce by collecting it in the Adirondacks — the hardiness of plants 

 depending, in part, upon the locality from which the seed is secured — but the pres- 

 ent year was a total failure in seed production, especially for White Pine, not only 

 in the Adirondacks, but in other parts of the country as well. 



l^ocrcring ACcoanf. 



The work in the woods having, so far, been confined to clearing for roads and 

 planting, only a crew of fifteen to twenty men has been maintained, located in the 

 Wawbeek Camp. Besides a small amount of logs resulting from this operation, 

 some 1,000 cords of stovewood have been prepared, for which a market will be found 

 in the neighborhood, among the hotels and private camps. It has been the aim to 

 bring together a crew of exceptionally good, reliable woodmen, who may become the 

 staple nucleus of the logging crews which will have to work with greater intelli- 

 gence and care than is usual, in order to secure the results which a forest manage- 

 ment is after. 



It is true, perhaps, that contract work would be cheaper, but it would be corre- 

 spondingly unsatisfactory, the restrictions which would have to be imposed would 

 be difficult to enforce, and finally lead to a raising of contract prices to the amount 

 which work under such restrictions would necessitate. 



At present writing the first tentative logging operation is being undertaken with 

 a view of gaining experiences, under the following instructions to the manager : 



Infractions for Sample Cutting. 



Object : 1. To furnish a sample of how to cut out the old timber with a view 

 to giving chance for young volunteer growth to develop, and especially of young 

 spruce, 



2. To determine the cost of lumbering with such care as the above considerations 

 imply. 



