lanters, and also
most of the counties are enlarging the area of their county forests.

The application form for forest trees includes seven evergreens and
nineteen deciduous trees. Walnut and butternut are the only nut trees on
the application form. Shagbark hickory has also been grown, but not in
large enough quantity to include it in the list of available trees. The
St. Williams tree nursery near Lake Erie has grown named varieties of
walnuts and hickories. These have been given out to interested parties,
and, in future years, will further the growing of the more desirable nut
trees. About ten years ago, the citizens of St. Thomas planted nut trees
two or three feet in height for seventy miles along No. 3 Highway which
crosses Elgin County. A large number of these trees have survived.

A large acreage of forest trees has also been planted under the Counties
Reforestation Act. Under this act the county purchases the land and the
province plants and looks after the plantations for thirty years. The
county then has three options _re_ paying back the cost of planting and
supervision. All the options are without interest charges. The county
forests are largely on light sandy soils that, in most cases, are a
liability to the municipalities if they are not growing trees.

The Ontario Government passed an act in 1946 that gave the counties the
right to pass a by-law to regulate cutting on privately-owned woodlots.
You will be interested to know that eleven counties have passed by-laws
to regulate cutting. They are all based on a diameter limit. We realize
that a diameter limit is a poor substitute for good forestry practice,
but it is better than unrestricted cutting. The diameter limits range
from ten to sixteen inches for most trees, and five to six inches for
cedars.

Considerable extension work was done on nut growing in the period from
1920 to 1930. Mr. James A. Neilson, an Extension Horticulturist
stationed at Vineland, became very interested and located many
individual trees and gave numerous lectures on nut culture. A bulletin
by Mr. Neilson on nut culture was published in 1925, and reprinted in
1930, by the Ontario Department of Agriculture. Mr. Neilson went to
Michigan and did extension work on this subject until his untimely
death. Mr. G. H. Corsan has also done considerable work to keep nut
culture before the public by writing letters to the different
newspapers.

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