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The following figures show the increase in nursery production 

 and extension of reforesting throughout the State: 



YEAR 



Number 



of 

 nurseries 



Area 



of 



nurseries 



Capacity 



of 

 nurseries 



Trees sold 



to private 



owners 



Trees 

 planted on 

 State lands 



Number 



of 



orders 



1909 



5 

 5 

 6 



8 

 9 



25 acres .... 

 30 acres. . . . 

 37 acres. . . . 

 49 acres .... 

 56 acres .... 



8.227.0C0 

 11,763,000 

 15,769,500 

 19,468,000 

 28,000,000 



1,005,000 

 1,700,000 

 1,670,370 

 2,970,910 

 3,242,200 



90,000 



189 



1910 



313 



1911 



120,000 



1,346,500 



76,000 



410 



1912 



524 



1913 



478 







STATE FOREST PROBLEMS 



Various questions in regard to forestry have been presented 

 during the year. Numerous requests have been received asking 

 for advice in handling forest land. As far as help was available 

 assistance has been given providing the owner would pay the 

 necessary expenses. The forest lands of the State institutions 

 have" been examined and excellent progress made in regard to their 

 management. Lumbering operations have been instituted upon 

 the land at Dannemora prison. More detailed information in re- 

 gard to this matter will be included in another part of this report. 



Tree Diseases 



No tree disease has given any special trouble during the past 

 year. The nurseries have been free from fungus troubles and the 

 trees produced were all in a healthy condition. 



The customary inspections of the plantations made in 190& 

 with German white pines have been continued. In most instances 

 the disease was not found to have increased to any extent. Dis- 

 covery was made at Geneva, N. Y., of a large white pine infested 

 with the blister rust. The same is the only instance which has 

 come to our attention where the disease has fully developed. 



Through co-operation with the United States Department of 

 Agriculture, a study was made in southeastern New York, par- 

 ticularly in the lower Hudson valley, relative to the utilization of 

 chestnut timber which had been injured by the chestnut bark 

 disease. 



State Institutions 



The plans which were prepared for the management of the for- 

 est lands at approximately forty of the various state institutions 



