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of New York, the Legislature of that State has just passed a 

 bill establishing a college of forestry at Cornell University 

 and placed in its hands for management 30,000 acres of timber 

 lands in the Adirondack Mountains. The faculty of the col- 

 lege is to consist of a professor, two instructors, a forest 

 manager and such rangers and superintendents as may be re- 

 quired. 



"More is due to the Hon. J. Sterling Morton than any 

 other man in the United States for creating a public sentiment 

 in favor of the protection of our forests and the encourage- 

 ment of tree planting. It was the happy thought of this pio- 

 neer settler on the treeless plains of Nebraska, who knew 

 and felt the value of trees about home, as well as their im- 

 portance for the many uses of life, to enlist his neighbors and 

 fellow-settlers throughout the State, by common impulse, 

 growing out of common wants and feelings, in the work of 

 tree planting on one and the same day. It was he who thought 

 out the plan of popularizing arboriculture and originated the 

 term or phrase 'Arbor Day,' and who, January 4, 1872, wrote, 

 submitted and advocated the resolution before the Nebraska 

 State Board of Agriculture which established that day as an 

 anniversary. In an address delivered April 22, 1887, at the 

 State University of Nebraska, Mr. Morton truthfully said: 

 'It has become the scholaristic festival of our times, common 

 schools, colleges and universities have taken its practical ob- 

 servance under their own special and intelligent direction. 

 The zeal of youth and the cultured, popularize it. That which 

 should survive in America must harmonize with education 

 and refinement. Whatsoever the schools, the teachers and the 

 pupils shall foster and encourage, shall live and flourish, 

 mentally and morally, forever. Students, scholars and phil- 

 osophers have ever been associated with trees and their con- 

 servation.' 



"The Hon. Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of schools 

 in the State of New York, says : 'There is a practical as well as 

 a sentimental side to Arbor Day. It has its inception in a com- 

 mendable movement looking to the protection of our forest 

 trees, and what may be called the making of new forests on 

 the plains of the West. The sentimental feature attached to 



