FORESTRY QUARTERLY. 



Vol. I. April, 1903. No. 3. 



FORESTRY AT AN AMERICAN AGRICUI.TURAL EX- 

 PERIMENT STATION. 



' ' We are haveing trouble with our hens throats swoollen 

 sneezeing have lost 4." 



Such was an appeal for help addressed to the writer as forester 

 of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Perhaps it 

 did not strike so much wider of the mark than such communica- 

 tions as these, which are very common : " Kindly send to my 

 address full information regarding the forestry laws of the high- 

 way protecting shade trees against trolley companies ' ' ; and 

 ' ' Can you not give some of your attention to beautifying our 

 rural school grounds ? ' ' 



Hens' throats, shade trees and school grounds unquestionably 

 are important. But their care is not forestry. 



Connecticut's woodlands and idle lands are almost exclusively 

 owned in relatively small tracts, ranging from ten to four hundred 

 acres each. 



The importance of the small wood-lot as a factor in American 

 forestry is recognized. Woodlands held in small parcels form in 

 their aggregate such a considerable proportion of the forest area 

 of the country, and furnish materials of such great total value, 

 that forestry for the farm cannot fail to play an important role in 

 the future. 



Every forester knows that these wood-lots are not yielding any- 

 thing like what they would yield if a reasonable amount of care 

 and skill were employed in their management. The complaint 

 so commonly heard among farmers and other owners of small 



