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Identifier: annualreport131415190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
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nd. We noted that a leafcovering during the winters of heavy snow fall produced a heating andmoulding of the seedlings. Hence we had to plan to prevent this trouble,and, at the same time, prevent heaving. We have solved this problem bycovering the beds with one thickness of burlaps placed over about twoinches of snow. The burlap prevents the melting of the snow and thethawing of the soil underneath, yet is so porous that heating or mould-ing does not occur. It works perfectly and is, for us, cheaper than leafcovering. Insect troubles are chiefly confined to attacks of chermes, but we havepractically exterminated this from the nursery by using kerosene emulsion.It should be applied after the eggs hatch, and before the woolly mass ontheir backs is developed, in order to be effective. Our next difficulty was in overcoming losses in transplanting. Wehave reduced our loss, in this respect, to almost a minimum by wettingthe soil, if necessary, before planting. Our light sandy soil when sum-
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FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 149 ciently moist makes planting safe, and gives the roots of the seedlings abetter chance to attach themselves to the soil. This is much cheaper thanthe temporary use of lath shade after transplanting in dry weather. We find we can increase the production of the nursery by transplant-ing, especially tap root species, when one year old. In the Adirondackswe must have very strong stock to succeed on the burned sand plains whichwe are reforesting. Seedlings planted are simply a waste of money, becausethey are unable to compete with the bramble growth and hardly everestablish themselves. We must have strong transplants, and it is a questionof economy how to get the best with the least expenditure, and secure thehighest nursery production. Experiments along these lines have beencarried on. We find that one-year-old seedlings transplanted two yearsare far larger and stronger plants than two-year-old seedlings transplantedfor one year. The former class ar

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