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keeping the number to the lowest practical terms be- 

 cause of tlic relatively large expenditure required for 

 their equipment and maintenance. 



The teaciiing of domestic science is an integral 

 part of tlie work of all these schools. No degrees are 

 conferred by them. They are entirely supported at 

 State expense and their work is carried on by a di- 

 rector and the faculty asscml)led by him, except that 

 in the schools at Canton and Alfred the president 

 of the University is given some prerogatives. 



A State College of Forestry was established at 

 Syracuse University in 1911, to give instruction in 

 forestry and forest management and allied branches. 

 It is administered liy a board of control made up, as 

 ex-officio members, of the chairman of the Conserva- 

 tion Commission, the Commissioner of Education 

 and the Chancellor of Syracuse University, together 

 with three persons appointed by the Governor and six 

 appointed l)y the trustees of Syracuse University. It 

 is, therefore, only indirectly affiliated with the system 

 of agricultural education in the State. It offers a 

 five-year professional course leading to a degree of 

 ]\Iaster in Forestry, and a two- or three-year ranger 

 course, the latter on the one thousand acres of forest 

 land controlled at Wanakena on Upper Saranac Lake 

 in the Adirondacks. 



Other agencies of college training in agriculture 

 are a department in Columbia University in New 

 York City and the David Slocum College of Agri- 

 culture in Syracuse University. They are designed 



