266 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Surveys and maps have finally been completed of all lands 

 taken over by the State under the reforestation act. These are 

 on file for future use. 



The department has more nursery stock on hand than ever 

 before, and a progressive policy has already been started with a 

 view to reforesting all waste or worthless lands belonging to our 

 State institutions. The policy is to furnish the stock for planting, 

 free of charge, provided the institutions meet the expense 6f labor 

 in setting them out. 



The United States government, as was predicted last year, has 

 agreed to take definite control of the problem of the spreading of 

 the gypsy moth; hence hereafter our State work resolves itself 

 down to internal self-preservation in the territory already infested. 

 It behooves us, therefore, from now on to perfect and improve the 

 conditions in our towns and cities. In order to accomplish this 

 it must be self-evident that the man locally in charge mwst have 

 sufficient training and ability to comprehend modern methods 

 first, and in the second place have the ability to handle labor 

 economically. 



The assistance given citizens and institutions in suggesting and 

 demonstrating methods of forest management has been greater 

 than ever. The experiment of substituting runabout automobiles 

 for motor cycles for division men who necessarily are constantly 

 traveling has proved in some instances a great advantage. 



There are other phases of the work that might be mentioned 

 here, but they are to be more fully explained under their proper 

 classification in this report. 



Organization. 



As is inevitably the case, there have been a few changes during 

 the year in the personnel of the general staff of assistants, but 

 we are fortunate in having intact the greater part of the same 

 trusted and tried organization. 



Mr. L. H. Worthley, who has been connected with this depart- 

 ment as assistant in moth work for a number of years, resigned 

 the fore part of the year to accept a similar position with the 

 entomological division of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture. The promotion was a well-deserved one, and after spend- 

 ing eight months in Europe with Mr. Fiske, the government 



