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or a place of great natural beauty, but that it shall be used as 

 a demonstration area for giving object lessons in the practical 

 working of the principles' of forestry. " It is to be managed 

 in such manner as to secure as rapid and profitable a growth 

 of timber as possible."^ 



Improvement cutting, thinning, planting, and protection 

 from fire are some of the forestry measures which it is ex- 

 pected will be practiced. " It is hoped that this undertaking 

 may be practically useful in restoring to forest production 

 some lands at present nearly worthless, and that such land 

 may be so tended as to serve as an object lesson in tree- 

 planting and in the proper management of woodland, thus 

 leading to a more rational and consequently more profitable 

 handling, by their owners, of the cordwood lands and timber 

 lands of Connecticut."^ In short, it is hoped to give a dem- 

 onstration that timber can be and should be treated as a regu- 

 lar crop — cared for, protected, harvested, and reproduced 

 as such. The eflfort will be to bring home to the owners of 

 the wood land that by a little trouble and expense the wood 

 lot may be made to yield a reasonably sure, if perhaps not 

 very large, rate of interest on the investment. 



Let me close with the statement with which we started : 

 " Forestry proper is not a modern sentimental fad." Forestry 

 means business. The New Haven Experiment Station pro- 

 poses to do what it can to show that forestry on a small scale 

 is practicable for the Connecticut farmer. I thank you for 

 vour attention. 



The President. This has been a very interesting sub- 

 ject, and if there are any questions to ask the professor we 

 will stop for a short while to give him a chance to answer. 

 We are a little bit behind time, however, and we like to keep 

 to our program as nearly as possible. If there are no ques- 

 tions I will call on Prof. A. L. Winton, who will tell us all 

 about flavoring extracts. 



1 Circular sent out by the State Forester, Oct. 1901. 



