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been much in demand. Copies of these are appended and made 

 a part of this report. 



Equipment. 



The equipment has been augmented to keep pace with the in- 

 crease in the number of students. Among the later acquisitions 

 may be mentioned traverse-boards, pantographs, tripods, Jacob 

 staffs, compasses and tapes. A considerable addition has been 

 made to the collection of lantern slides used for illustrating lec- 

 tures, and a sectional lantern slide cabinet has been installed to 

 store these in the most convenient manner so that they may be, 

 available on a moment's notice. A new and improved Balopti- 

 con has also been installed. This has the advantage of being 

 equally useful for the projection of lantern slides and opaque 

 objects on the screen, and the illumination is furnished by an 

 incandescent 1,000 candle power lamp, which is entirely noise- 

 less in operation and is in every way more economical than the 

 old style steriopticon. 



Extension. 



The object of the extension work is to aid the farmer and 

 woodlot owner in getting a maximum yield from his wooded 

 area and to induce him to make his waste land productive. In 

 furtherance of this object the Extension Department and the 

 Forestry Department have cooperated in establishing demun- 

 strations, giving advice, conducting investigative work, and 

 assisting in establishing plantations. 



Woodlot demonstrations now established have the following 

 objects : To show the advantage of making thinnings in ^oung 

 and growing stands; to increase the proportion of valuable 

 species that grow to merchantable size in a mixed stand, to 

 show the practicability and financial profit in forest planting; 

 and to demonstrate that the work can be handled successfully 

 by the average woodlot owner without any special technical 

 training. 



Four woodlots have been secured for thinning demonstra- 

 tions. Three of these are in the southwestern part of the State 

 in young pine stands. In one old field pines are being removed 

 from among the younger even-aged trees. These old field pines 

 have wide spreading branches that overtop the younger trees, and 

 occupy more than their share of the ground. Additional growth 



