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3. Experimental and demonstration work in treatment of the 

 wood-lot. A little work in cutting and in planting has been done 

 on the burned-over tract mentioned above. Thinning and im- 

 provement cutting have been carried on in co-operation with a 

 private owner in the central part of the State, and considerably 

 more such work is planned for this winter. 



4. Dissemination of information and practical assistance to 

 woodland owners. Stress is laid upon the value of personal inter- 

 course with farmers and other woodland owners throughout the 

 State. Every opportunity is taken to become acquainted with 

 such men and talk with them, on their wood-lots if possible. 

 Addres.ses have been given at meetings held under various 

 auspices, such as the Grange, the Farmers' Institute, the State 

 Board of Agriculture, the State Forestry Association, and the 

 Daughters of the American Revolution. Considerable corre- 

 spondence has been carried on, and is encouraging in showing 

 interest developed. 



The Station makes an offer similar to that of the national Bu- 

 reau of Forestry. The Station forester will visit any one owning 

 woodland or idle land in Connecticut who gives reasonable assur- 

 ance that he seriously intends to carry out some practical forestry 

 work, and will prepare a planting plan for open land, or sugges- 

 tions for treatment of woodland, as the case may be. The ex- 

 pense to the owner is that necessarily incurred by the forester 

 in traveling to and from New Haven, there being no other 

 fee. 



Several parties have availed themselves of this offer, and 

 .some planting has already been executed as a result. A co- 

 operative agreement with the Board of Water Commissioners of 

 the city of Middletown has been signed, by which the Water 

 Board agrees to expend not less than $1,000 in the execution of 

 a planting plan to be prepared by the Station forester. The land 

 to be planted comprises about one hundred and fifty acres of open 

 land upon the watershed of one of the citj' reservoirs. The city 

 also owns about nine hundred acres of woodland on the same 

 watershed, on one portion of which the Station forester is this 

 winter to begin thinning and improvement cutting. 



The work outlined above \\\:xy be termed the Station work 

 proper, and is supported by a portion of the income of a bequest 



