hundred and fifty thousand conifers, fifty thousand Chinese 
elm, one hundred thousand willow, and twenty-five thousand 
other minor species in the spring of 1951, in addition to seed 
sowing. 
The Board entered into an agreement to assist the flood- 
ed Mandan SCS Nursery by seeding pre-treated seed of ash 
and boxelder. This produced 125,000 useable boxelder and a 
carry-over of approximately seventy-six thousand ash for 
the fall of 1951. The above figures represent approximately 
10% of the Oakes Nursery useable production and carry-over 
for 1950. The SCS Nursery is to assist the Oakes Nursery 
in supplying lining out stock of cottonwood, cedar and pos- 
sibly some seed. 
The disease and insect problem was light. The labor 
situation at the nursery was satisfactory this season. Labor 
was a little short early this fall, but improved for the main 
harvest. 
Cooperation from the districts has been very good. We 
received orders much in excess of our inventories, and it 
became necessay to pro-rate the 1950 crop on the basis of 
past planting records in the State. Several of the species 
under-dug the inventories, resulting in further cuts. The 
main block of buckthorn and buffaloberry are to remain in 
field for another season’s growth. Only a small amount of 
stock was purchased this year to supplement the Oakes Nur- 
sery production. 
The 1950 season attracted a number of visitors, and in 
general the guests appeared pleased with your nursery. 
Title to the Oakes Nursery is in the James River Soil 
Conservation District. We recommended that some steps 
be taken to secure the title in the name of the State Associ- 
ation or in the name of all the Districts in the State. In order 
to secure a more satisfactory method of tree distribution for’ 
North Dakota districts, we wish to recommend that a pur- 
chasing committee be set up to handle tree allocations and 
purchases for the districts of the State taking into considera- 
tion those trees available from the Mandan Nursery, School 
of Forestry and the Oakes Nursery. This committee to be 
composed of a representative of each of the Nurseries men- 
tioned and they or their representative be authorized to buy 
commercially the trees needed to fill orders from districts. 
