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this year more theoretical work in Mathematics, Botany, Geology 

 and Soils, and Surveying, with independent work along practical 

 lines. 



The law which established the New York State College of 

 Forestry at Syracuse University, obligates it to carry on both 

 educational and investigative work. To meet the second require- 

 ment, the College purchased in the spring of 1912 two small 

 adjacent farms of 90 acres on the south boundary of the city, 

 which is being developed as a State Forest Experiment Station. 



During the past spring an Experimental Nursery was started at 

 the Station which is now under the direction of Professor John 

 W. Stephen, who has had five years of practical experience along 

 these lines with the State Conservation Commission. At present 

 there are a million and a half seedlings and transplants growing, 

 following out definite plans as to different methods of planting 

 and upon different soils and situations. Thirty acres of the 

 Station is covered with an excellent second-growth woodlot and 

 here permanent sample areas have been laid out and are being 

 treated according to different methods of management applicable 

 to such woodland. It is very essential in the State of New York 

 that definite data be obtained as to methods to be used in re- 

 juvenating worn-out woodlots, in hastening maturity and improv- 

 ing composition of second-growth timber, and in underplanting 

 and replacing woodlots which are now made up entirely of worth- 

 less species. 



The contract for the erection of the forestry building at Cornell 

 which has just been let calls for a brick structure 143 feet by 58 

 feet, with three floors and a finished attic. The building is to 

 cost $100,000. It is to be appropriately located close to a hard- 

 wood and hemlock woods on the edge of the Campus, and is to 

 be ready for occupancy sometime during the college year 19 13- 14. 



The trustees of Cornell University have just enlarged the 

 faculty of the Department of Forestry by the appointment of 

 Arthur B. Recknagel as full professor. The faculty now includes 

 three full professors and an assistant professor. Mr. Recknagel 

 will have the work in forest management, forest utilization and 

 wood technology. Mr. Recknagel graduated from the Academic 

 course at Yale University in 1904, and from the Yale Forest 



