FOREST EXPERIMENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1939, Page 8

FOREST EXPERIMENTS

GROWING OF SCOTS PINE IN CANADA. OTTAWA. An investigation has been begun this year at the Petawawa Forest Experiment Station by the Dominion Forest Service, into the growing of Scots pine in competition with the two native species of pine (red pine and jack pine) which most nearly resemble it. Scots pine has for long held a favourable position in the timber market of the United Kingdom and exports of that species from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and other European woodexporting countries constitute the main competition for Canadian species of pine. Scots pine seedlings grown in the nursery at the Petawawa Forest Experiment station have been planted adjacent to equal areas of jack pine and red pine seedlings produced from Canadian seed. The growing conditions are uniform throughout the entire plantation and by means of close observation and periodic remeasurement it will be possible to determine whether or not the exotic species is equal in quantity and quality of wood production. •’ ' Though it will be many years before a final decision can be reached as to the relative merits of the three species, some intimation as to probable rate of growth and resistance to disease and insect attacks will be forthcoming during the progress of the experiment.