DEDICATION OF A FORESTRY BUILDING 



THE dedication of the forestry 

 building of the New York State 

 College of Agriculture at Cornell 

 University on May 15 promises 

 to be an occasion of great interest. The 

 address of dedication is to be given by 

 L. H. Bailey, former director of the 

 College of Agriculture, at the opening 

 of the program. Morning, afternoon 

 and evening sessions have been arranged. 



In the morning and afternoon the 

 following additional speakers will be 

 heard: J. S. Whipple, President of the 

 New York State Forestry Association; 

 C. M. Dow, Chairman of the Forestry 

 Committee of the New York State 

 Bankers' Association; F. L. Moore, 

 President of the Empire State Forest 

 Products Association; C. L. Pack, Presi- 

 dent of the National Conservation Con- 

 gress; H. S. Drinker, President of the 

 American Forestry Association; J. W. 

 Tourney, Director of the Yale Forest 

 School. 



The evening session will be held in the 

 assembly hall of the Main Agricultural 

 Building, at which Henry S. Graves 

 and Gifford Pinchot will be the speakers. 



On Saturday morning, May 16, the 

 Society of American Foresters will hold 

 a meeting at which Alfred Gaskill, 

 State Forester of New Jersey, Filibert 

 Roth, Director of the Department of 

 Forestry at the University of Michi- 

 gan, and B. E. Fernow, President of the 

 Society, will speak. 



The directors of the American For- 

 estry Association will also attend during 

 the two days' exercises and at the same 

 time will hold their spring meeting. 



The program throughout follows one 

 main topic, of interest to all, "The Lines 



of Principal Effort in American For- 

 estry for the Next Decade." The 

 speakers will develop this subject from 

 various standpoints, including the train- 

 ing of foresters, lumbering, making 

 public opinion effective, national forest 

 work, the national movement for forest 

 conservation, state forestry in the east 

 and in the middle west. 



The Cornell Forestry Club has planned 

 an excursion by boat to Taughannock 

 Falls on Saturday afternoon and an 

 informal dinner there. 



Between the sessions of the dedica- 

 tion meeting, visitors will have an 

 opportunity to visit buildings of the 

 university and to inspect the new for- 

 estry building. 



This building is located on the east 

 side of the university campus, opposite 

 Beebe Lake and Fall Creek Road. Its 

 cost, including equipment, is $120,000, 

 which was appropriated by the State. 

 It is one hundred and forty- two feet 

 long and fifty-four feet wide. The dis- 

 tribution of principal rooms is as follows : 



Ground floor : Wood technology labor- 

 atories, timber testing laboratory, locker 

 room, freight room. 



First floor: Offices, reading room, 

 lecture and class room, mensuration 

 and utilization laboratory. 



Second floor: Silvi cultural and den- 

 drology laboratory, museum, herbarium, 

 class rooms, draughting room. 



Third floor: Laboratories for ad- 

 vanced students, forestry club room, 

 camera and dark rooms. 



Much interest has been shown in the 

 dedication and a large attendance both 

 from within and without the State is 

 assured. 



Sawdust is now becoming of sufficient value to ship it to points where it can be used for ice packing, 

 stable bedding, stuffing for upholstery, packing glass-ware, for shipment of metals, crockery, etc. Saw- 

 dust is even used for the manufacture of gunpowder and in Europe it is compressed into briquettes 

 and sold for fuel. A few plants have already been organized in this country for utilizing sawdust for 

 briquettes. Slabs, edgings and tops are now being profitably converted into cooperage stock, broom 

 and otJier handles, wood turnery, wooden dishes and novelties, dowels, furniture rounds, etc. 



The stringent requirement of the Forest Service that all sheep be dipped before entering the national 

 forests has practically eradicated scabies on those areas. 



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