1 8 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



trees and ornamental trees. That must be continued, but it 

 is not forestry. You might as well say that the cultivation 

 of a little flower bed was agriculture. 



More than a third of our state is already covered with wood- 

 land. This is in scattered patches, not large forests. Of the 

 25,000 farms in this state probably there is a piece of woodland 

 on more than 24,000 of them, and probably 20,000 of those 

 woodlands can be made to pay the owners more than they do 

 now. We have started a school of forestry here at Yale Uni- 

 versity, but that is not going to reach the older farmers 

 directly so largely as it will indirectly. Dr.. Jenkins, now 

 the Director of the Experiment Station, has planned a way to 

 reach the farmers in this connection, and we are taking steps 

 at the present time for experiment. It is hoped that the far- 

 mers will take advantage of it. There are many problems to 

 solve which they cannot well do for themselves, but which the 

 Experiment Station and Forestry School can aid in. We 

 have already two pieces of ground, and they are being put 

 into shape for practical experiment. 



In 1876 I happened to be a member of the group of judges 

 at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, and had to pass 

 upon various forest products, among which were nuts. One 

 of the things which surprised me greatly was the very impor- 

 tant part that nuts play in the income of farmers and landed 

 proprietors over much of the continent of Europe, more par- 

 ticularly in the central and southern countries. Walnuts, 

 chestnuts, and filberts are grown in enormous quantities both 

 for home use and for export. You can hardly find a grocery 

 store in our cities that is not selling nuts from Europe. The 

 walnut has there been cultivated from time immemorial, and is 

 a source of much revenue. I made a collection of nuts for my 

 own curiosity, of the various kinds coming from several coun- 

 tries, and in the study of the question met with some interest- 

 ing facts. It was a revelation to me. Here nuts are luxuries ; 

 there both a luxury and a food. There is not time now to 



