Vast areas of abandoned or sub-marginal land exist. In Quebec alone it has been estimated that there are about 1,400,000 acres of abandoned farmland (32). Some of this land is being turned into tree farms and more of it could be so utilized if some problems could be overcome. The chief difficulties existing are mainly those of uneven topography, poor drainage and low fertility status of the soil. This latter problem could be possibly the easiest difficulty to overcome provided adequate knowledge existed of the effects of fertilization on reforested areas. To assess relative fertility levels of soils for purposes of reforestation methods of soils analysis as well as plant analysis may be useful. These must be developed in conjunction with fertilizer application experiments either in the field or in the greenhouse under a controlled environment.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115398 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Cotton, Donald. R. |
| Contributors | MacKenzie, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Agriculture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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