Cape Cod and the Old colony . On the Land 165 of rolling moraine lead down to the border ofGreat Marshes and Barnstable Bay. Thissmall farm is a forest nursery of the State ofMassachusetts. Work began here in 1913, andthe nursery now has over four hundred seed-beds, covering eight acres of land. The plant-ings consist of white pine, Scotch pine, Norwayspruce, larch, Douglas fir, and arbor a million two-year white pines will beready to plant in 1920. The nursery now hasfour million trees in various stages of htmdred years later when two or three gen-erations of conservation
Cape Cod and the Old colony . On the Land 165 of rolling moraine lead down to the border ofGreat Marshes and Barnstable Bay. Thissmall farm is a forest nursery of the State ofMassachusetts. Work began here in 1913, andthe nursery now has over four hundred seed-beds, covering eight acres of land. The plant-ings consist of white pine, Scotch pine, Norwayspruce, larch, Douglas fir, and arbor a million two-year white pines will beready to plant in 1920. The nursery now hasfour million trees in various stages of htmdred years later when two or three gen-erations of conservation have succeeded thedestructive revel of the lumbermen of thenineteenth century, the glory of the NewEngland white pine may revive, and theforest production become as real as it is nowreminiscent. This is what industry and careful thinkinghave done on Cape lands. It was no outsiderwith money, but young Cape blood, which hasdeveloped the great Mayo duck farm on highand steep-sloping hills that look out to sea onthe eastern shor
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