. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Ontario Co-operative Work in Forestry Paper read hy Mr. E. J. Zavit', Provincial Forester, at the Erperimental Union, On- tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Out., Jan. 14, 1914. This last season the Forestry Department •listributed some 200,000 forest tree seeil- lings and transplants to private owners throughout the Province. These plants went into twenty-nine counties. The distribution of trees for this last season has been, as far as numbers are concerned, smaller than that of previous years. This is partly accounted
. Canadian forestry journal. Forests and forestry -- Canada Periodicals. Ontario Co-operative Work in Forestry Paper read hy Mr. E. J. Zavit', Provincial Forester, at the Erperimental Union, On- tario Agricultural College, Guelph, Out., Jan. 14, 1914. This last season the Forestry Department •listributed some 200,000 forest tree seeil- lings and transplants to private owners throughout the Province. These plants went into twenty-nine counties. The distribution of trees for this last season has been, as far as numbers are concerned, smaller than that of previous years. This is partly accounted for by the evident lack of labour throughout the Province. A number of applicants were unable to handle the work and notified us that they were afraid that they would not be able to carry out the experiment owing to lack of labour. At the present time we have experimental plantations in practically every county in the Province. These plantations vary in size from one-eighth of an acre to 10 acres, ami in a few cases even larger. During the first five years of the life of the plantation, it does not make very much of a show, as the plants are very small when sent out from our nurseries. As the plan- tation gets up to the sixth year, it begins to draw attention, and I anticipate that the influence of these experimental plantations throughout older Ontario, will have a strong educational value. The bulk of our plantations are made upon soils more or less unfit for agriculture. The plantations are made on steep hillsides, sand formations and upon blow sands, which in- terfere often \\-ith township roads. This last form of planting on sand which is drifting across county or township roads is an inter- esting feature of our work. There are a great number of places in the Province where light sand ridges inter- cept the highway. In many cases where this sand has started to shift it is interfering with the condition of the roads. Scotch pine and jack pine thrive in the very poorest s
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