Supplement to 



Mome IRature * Stub^ Course 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell University, 

 in October, December, February and April and Entered October 

 1, igo4, at Ithaca, New York, as Second-class Matter, under 

 Act of Congress of July i6, 1894. 



ANNA BOTSFORD COMSTOCK, Editor 



NewSeries.Vol.il. ITHACA, N. Y., FEBRUARY-MARCH, 1906 



No. 3 



Pen drawing by W. C. Baker 



White oak. 



TREE STUDY 



FORESTRY ~ 



When our ancestors found their way to America they found the 

 shores bristling with inhospitable trees, and it was a part of their work to 

 hew down these forests which obstructed the path of civilization. Year 

 after year the fight went on between the axe and the wilderness ; then 

 after many years the axe continued its work for the sake of our material 

 prosperity. At last the time has come when the axe is doing more damage 

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