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investigations as to the best methods of treating the Connecti- 

 cut wood-lot ; and, secondly, to provnde object-lessons. Such 

 object-lessons should serve both as patterns for private own- 

 ers of woodlands to follow more or less, and as incentives to 

 induce such owners to give their lands better care, by showdng 

 them that their pocketbooks are favorably affected in so doing. 



It is hoped that in the near future the State will go much 

 further, and engage in forestrj' on a sufficiently liberal basis to 

 accomplish something in the way of regulation of the flow of our 

 smaller rivers, and to insure to future generations a home-grown 

 supply of large sized timber. The regulation of .stream -flow of 

 the smaller rivers is of peculiar importance to Connecticut, be- 

 cause of the large number of manufactories depending upon 

 water power. 



Such is the beginning of one American agricultural experiment 

 station's work for forestry. 



Walter Mulford. 



