EEPORT OF THE STATE FOEESTER.' 



To the General Court. 



Part I. — Covering the Time between Jan. 1 and Sept. 



15, 1906. 

 This office has continued its activities, during the time 

 covered by this report, along the lines pursued heretofore. 

 The following pages contain a review of the work done, to- 

 gether with some notes on forest conditions in this Common- 

 wealth and recommendations for their betterment. 



Forestry Lectures at the Agricultural College. 



Fifty-one students attended the course in forestry at the 

 Agricultural College this year past. The year before there 

 were twenty-nine, making eighty in all who have taken the 

 course. The course deals with the subject in its application 

 to the farm wood lot. 



Interest in the study of forestry has been stimulated by 

 the offer of the J. D. W. French prize by the Bay State 

 Agricultural Society, and two prizes for the best essays on 

 the farm wood lot by a friend of the college. 



Public Lectures and Addresses. 

 In addition to the lectures at the Agricultural College, 

 nineteen public lectures on forestry were given during the 

 year, making a total of sixty-two since the office was estab- 

 lished. As in the case of wood lot examinations, the appli- 

 cants for lectures pay the actual travelling and subsistence 

 expenses of the forester. 



TJie Inter-state Conference at Charlotte, N. C. 

 An inter-state forestry conference was held in Charlotte, 

 N. C, on March 3. The State Forester was invited to at- 

 tend and deliver an address on the State forestry work in 

 Massachusetts. The invitation was accepted and the address 

 delivered. 



1 House Document No. 200, 1907. 



