The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-10-02
a varying period of two to six weeks,
according to the size of the job. Local

men are given preference on Cne
planting job, since these men are
trained to plant efficiently and return
to the planting job year after year.
1t was necessary to delay starting the
planting operations this year on &C
count of the extreme drought. The
trees must all be planted before the
ground freezes"
The number of trees that can be
planted is dependent of course" OBJ
served Mr.. Wales, ION the number of
trees available in the nursery. The
Beal Nursery at East Tawas, Michigan,
capacity of 100000 per year. The
CaSs Lake, Minnesota, Nursery was
expanded last spring to a capacity of
100000 trees, which vii, be available
in the fall of 1892, and the nursery at
Rhinelander, Wisconsin, will have
100000 trees available next fall. The
trees available next year will allow the
acreage planted to be increased to ap-
proximately 1880 trees. Seed suff1-
cient to produce 100000 trees is
being planted at Rhinelander this fall,
and when the resultant trees are two
years old the acreage to be planted in
Wisconsin will jump to $4,000 acres.
Plans are under way to increase the
capacity of the Cass Lake Nursery, and
also to develop a new nursery in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan. When
the new nursery is fully developed,
and when the other nurseries are pro-
ducing at their maximum, it is ex-
pected that $4,000 acres each year will
be planted on the Federal forests in
the Lake Superior region" Mr.. Wales
concluded.
Gathering Seeds.
The largest coniferous seed collec-
ton ever undertaken in the Lake
States Region of the Forest Service
is now under way on the Chippewa
Forest in Minnesota, according to Mr..
Wales.
It is planned to gather total of
$4,000 bushels of red, white and jack
pine and spruce cones, and to extract
the seed from the cones at the ex-
tractory which is located at Cass Lake,
Minnesota. Small quantities of the
seed of other species, such as tama-
rack, black spruce, white cedar, etc.,
will also be collected for experimental
purposes. The seed from three thous-
and bushels of the cones will be used
at Federal tree nurseries in the region.
The remainder of the seed is being
collected for distribution to the various
states under the authorization of Sec
ton 4 of the Clark-McNary Law. AS
a measure of cooperation with the
states, the seed is furnished for state
reforestation purposes at the actual
cost of collection and extraction. 1.-The
collection this year." continued Mr..
Wales, exceeds by nearly 5000 bushels
the collection that was made in the
fall and winter of 1880 and 1881. The
job of extracting the seeds from the
cones this year will tax the capacity
of the plant. Last year the eXtrac-
ton work was started on October Is,
and the plant was operated three shifts
day for a six-months period. The
eXtractory will start operations about
October l, and it will require nearly
a year of continuous operation to COM
plete the extraction of the seed"
It was pointed out by Mr.. Wales that
coniferous trees produce good crop
of seed at intervals of from three to
five years. It is necessary, therefore,
to collect enough seed to supply the
needs for at least a three-year period.
The seed not needed for immediate
planting is stored in cool, dry cellar,
since it has been found that the seed
loses but very little of its vitality when
stored under these conditions for sew
eral years.