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does well to study the comparative conditions of the east and 

 west. If we were to keep much of our capital at home, and 

 employ it equally as lavishly toward modern forestry or even 

 agriculture, I believe as good or even better results could be 

 assured. 



OTHER LECTURES OUTSIDE THE STATE. 

 The State Forester has been called upon to address various 

 other organizations of a national or State nature outside this 

 State, and was able to give addresses on forestry before the fol- 

 lowing: the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, 

 held at Lansing, Mich., May 29; the National Horticultural 

 Congress, held at Jamestown Exposition, September 23; and 

 the New Hampshire State Board of Agriculture's annual winter 

 meeting, at Whitfield, December 5. The meeting of the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science, which con- 

 vened in New York the first of the year, was also attended. 



PUBLICATIONS. 

 The publications of the office for the year are as follows : 



THE FOREST NURSERY AT AMHERST. 



Last spring the nursery work was reorganized and placed in 

 the hands of R. S. Langdell of Lowell, a former student of the 

 writer, who has greatly improved the nursery, although it has 

 been carried on under very limited conditions. Instead of having 

 the land allotted by the college in different places, as heretofore, 

 it has been concentrated, and therefore more easily handled. A 

 small, inexpensive tool and packing shed has been erected, 



