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do not have trees, they learn to value them. In some of the 
towns of the far West, there is a time given up entirely in the 
public schools to planting trees; the children go out, and the 
teachers gather with them, and plant trees, and all find it a very 
pleasant task. Whatever, also, could avert forest fires, which are 
such a calamity to this country, would prove a blessing to pos- 
terity; and he felt that this Academy, in seeking to advance the 
interests of forestry, certainly deserved encouragement. People 
who are brought up in the city, and have lived there all their 
lives, hardly know what trees are; and he believed that the most 
work could be done in the country schools. We have agricul- 
tural colleges where it is a business to raise trees and study their 
culture, but a great deal more might be done in this direction. 
He observed further that there are some persons who take up 
land under our present statutes and plant trees; but just as soon 
as they are at all grown, cut them down and, instead of main- 
taining a forest growth, use the land for pasturage merely, 
making the trees a pretext for obtaining the land at low rates. 
No more important subject than this could possibly come before 
the Society. 
Pror. D. 8. MARTIN said that in the matter which Dr. Jarchow 
nas presented to us, of Forestry education, there is one institu- 
tion in this State which might very properly take it up, and 
establish a department of this kind, with great advantage. 
We have no colleges very near to the Adirondacks, the nearest 
being Union College, at Schenectady. But Cornell University 
is near enough; and when this institution was established it 
was the very idea of its founder to provide education for young 
men in any required pursuit, and provision was made for various 
departments to be added as needs might arise for which there was 
no instruction provided elsewhere. ‘This seems to be altogether 
the most appropriate and available place for locating such a 
School of Forestry. There are two or three directions in which 
the State Forestry Association should work:—First, it should seek 
to present the subject in different places throughout the State, 
wherever popular enthusiasm and interest could be aroused;— 
second, there should be a bill drawn up and laid before the Legis- 
lature, to restrict the reckless lumber trade, which thinks of 
