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and within the State parks on which the forest cover has been 

 destroyed, thus providing a safeguard against the action of those 

 who do not accept voluntarily the State control provided by Sec- 

 tion 88. 



The bill also provides (Section 90) for the re-enactment of 

 the penalty for violation of the top-lopping law and a limitation 

 of its operation to a trunk diameter of three inches and over. 

 It also provides for the purchase by the State of barren lands to 

 be reforested and for the establishment of bird and animal refuges 

 within the forest preserve. 



We shall watch with interest the results of this new de- 

 parture. 



The use of Press Bulletins for the purpose of informing and 

 educating the public and to make propaganda for enterprises of 

 various sort is on the increase. The U. S. Forest Service, the 

 Dominion Forestry Branch of Ca.nada, the British Columbia 

 Service, the Forest Commission of Indiana, and several other 

 official departments, the Western Forestry and Conservation As- 

 sociation and other associations are busy in this direction. But 

 the only technical educational institution that uses this means of 

 advertising itself, and keeping itself in the public eyes and ad- 

 vancing thereby public education is the new New York State 

 College at Syracuse University. This institution, successful in 

 securing a $250,000 building and a $50,000 appropriation, in 

 spite of Cornell University, to which one of the bulletins refers 

 as "developing a department of Forestry in the College of Agri- 

 culture", appears to occupy every nook and corner of the State 

 as regards forestry matters, with a number of dilTerent profes- 

 sional courses at Syracuse, a ranger school in the Adirondacks, 

 a summer school camp, an experiment station in the Catskills; 

 timber testing, paper pulp and destructive distillation plants ; uni- 

 versity extension courses throughout the State ; giving expert 

 advice to the Palisades Interstate Commission, and to every 

 woodlot and timber owner who may apply. 



If the deeds will correspond to the words, there is no doubt 

 that the millenium of forestry will soon have arrived in the State 

 of New York — and we wish them full success ! — but for a little 

 clause in the Constitution which prevents the State from bene- 

 fitting of all this activity for its own lands. Perhaps this active 



