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the average, therefore, about 3 pounds is usually sown to each 100 
square feet of seed bed, or 1J pounds to each 100 linear feet of drill. 
Under favorable conditions germination usually takes place in 
about three weeks and is fairly uniform, little if any of the fertile 
seed lying dormant. The seedling develops fairly rapidly for a 
conifer, and by the end of the first season is from 2 to 4 inches tall 
and has a root from 6 to 10 inches long. "When 1 year old it usually 
is transplanted into beds or pots, and when 2 or 3 years old it is set 
out in the field, having by that time reached a height of from 6 to 10 
inches. The cost of raising stock varies widely, but is proportionately 
less when large quantities are raised. At the Pilgrim Creek nursery 
on the Shasta National Forest, in 1912, the cost of raising 1-year-old 
seedlings was $7.63 per 1,000, including overhead charges, and it was 
estimated that 2-year-old stock one year in the transplant beds had 
cost approximately $13.35 per 1,000. Adding $2.98, the average cost 
of preparing for shipment and hauling to the railroad, gives the 
average cost of stock of this species when it left the nursery as $16.63 
per 1,000. At other nurseries where stock has been raised in smaller 
quantities and transplanted into paper pots instead of transplant 
beds the cost has run as high as $27.50 per 1,000. There is little 
question, however, that stock of this species raised in commercial 
quantities could be produced at a cost considerably below' these fig- 
ures. For ornamental purposes, for which there is a growing de- 
mand, incense cedars bring 60 cents apiece when from 6 inches to 
1 foot high and $1.50 when from 2 to 4 feet high. 
FIELD PLANTING AND SOWING. 
Repeated efforts have been made by the Forest Service to establish 
plantations of incense cedar by sowing both broadcast and in seed 
pots but with indifferent success, owing to damage by rodents and 
drought and to many of the sites being unfavorable. TVhere con- 
ditions are favorable, however, planting with this species gives fair 
promise of success. Too little work has yet been done to determine 
conclusively the possibilities of field planting, but there is every rea- 
son to believe that with proper methods incense cedar can be planted 
successfully. The cost, however, will have to be reduced materially 
before field planting can be done at a profit that will justify its 
being attempted on a commercial scale by private individuals. 
