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ship was thirty-six, the acceptance was on the condition that the 

 meeting be made public, and under the usual requirements, re- 

 sulting in an audience of over five hundred. The number of 

 lectures delivered during the year was forty-five. 



Lectures at the Agricultural College. 



In accordance with arrangements made with the authorities 

 representing the trustees of the college, a course of instructions 

 on forestry, consisting of ten lectures and exercises, was given 

 by the State Forester to the students of the college last spring. 

 I am frank to say that it would be impossible to work with a more 

 satisfactory and intelligent body of students than attended this 

 course of lectures. 



A talk on forestry was also given by the State Forester before 

 the Conference on Rural Progress, called by President Kenyon 

 L. Butterfield in October at the Agricultural College. 



The National Irrigation and Forestry Congress. 

 The State Forester was invited to address the above congress 

 at Sacramento, Cal., September 2 to 7, on " State Forestry Devel- 

 opment," and present a paper upon " The Use of Artificial Fer- 

 tilizers in Forestry." This trip was also made use of in visiting 

 some large commercial nurseries in the middle west, as well as 

 studying general forestry methods on the Pacific coast. The 

 congress proved a great success, and was teeming with enthu- 

 siasm and interest, peculiar to western hustle. Similar meetings 

 in the east would be productive of great good. Massachusetts 

 was the only New England State that was represented by a dele- 

 gate, and even New York and Pennsylvania were not repre- 

 sented. There are many features about our New England en- 

 vironment and conditions that are of great advantage in forestry. 

 One thing particularly, — we do not have the dry season to 

 overcome; and in reforestation this one thing is greatly in our 

 favor, to say nothing about better markets, etc. An easterner 

 does well to study the comparative conditions of the east and 

 west. If we were to keep much of our capital at home, and 

 employ it equally as lavishly toward modern forestry or even 

 agriculture, I believe as good or even better results could be 

 assured. 



