REPORT OF TEE STATE EORESTER/ 



To the General Cniui. 



This office was established to promote the perpetuation, 

 extension and proper management of forest lands within the 

 Commonwealth, both public and private. Its activities for 

 the year 1905 are briefly revicAved below, and some notes 

 are included on work or conditions not directly under its 

 supervision, but germane to the general duty of the oflice. 



Personnel of the State Forest Service. 

 There have been two additions to the service during the 

 year. The present organization is as follows : — 



Alfred Akerman, M.F., . , State Forester. 



Ealph C. Hawley, M.F., . . Assistant State Forester. 



Leverett Bradley, . . . Agent. 



Walter K. Fobes, , . . Clerk. 



Besides those named above who are regularly emplo}'ed, 

 an assistant in the woods, or office, is occasionally employed 

 in case of emergency. 



Course in Forestry at the Agricultural College. 



The course of lectures provided for in the act creating the 

 office of State Forester was given for the first time in Fc^b- 

 ruaiy and March, 1905. Twenty-nine men elected the 

 course. 



This course is designed to prepare prospective farmers for 

 the management of their wood lots. It is not designed to fit 

 men for the practice of the profession, Avhich usually takes 

 two or three years of close application after the under- 

 graduate courses have been finished. The course at the 

 Agricultural (College would no more fit a man for the practice 



' House Document, No. 350, litOt). 



