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Scotch pines, which are peculiarly adapted to a sandy soil, having devel- 

 oped leaders from 18 to 24 inches in length. A Scotch pine on the Axton 

 plantation made a leader last summer 31^ inches long. The Harrietstown 

 plantation in three more years will show a young forest of pines higher 

 than a man's head. This tract was thoroughly inspected last spring by 

 one of our foresters, who removed the few dead or defective plants and 

 replaced them with green stock. There is not a blank now in the entire 

 plantation. 



The plants on this tract were set out at intervals of five feet. But in 

 the plantations made last spring and fall the little trees were spaced at four 

 feet apart each way. This closer spacing was used to ensure a more rapid 

 height growth, and to force, by the greater crowding, the young trees to 

 shed their lower limbs. 



Adirondack ?\ap 



Progress has been made in the preparation of the base sheet for a new 

 Adirondack map, an appropriation cf $900 having been made for this work 

 at the last session of the Legislature. Through an arrangement made with 

 an engineer connected with the U. S. Geological Survey, all the sheets of the 

 Adirondack region, so far as completed, have been transferred to one large 

 sheet, thereby giving us an accurate geographical base on which to place 

 the landed allotment of that territory. 



Another appropriation will be necessary for the employment of a 

 competent draughtsman to overlay this map with the many and intricate 

 lines of tne various townships and their interior allotments. I would 

 respectfully recommend that an additional appropriation of $1,200 be asked 

 for at the coming session of the Legislature in order to complete this map, 

 which is so necessary to the proper management of the vast real estate 

 business incumbent on this Department. In view of the large amount of 

 money expended by the State on its Adirondack surveys it would be a serious 

 error if the result of all this labor and expense were not preserved in a suitable 

 map, as this is the only way in which the work can be properly embodied 

 so that it will be available for the use and benefit of the Department and the 

 people at large. 



