/J.IO REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



Agricultural Knowledge to the farmers of the State, inviting them to secure by cor- 

 respondence or otherwise the benefits which this State College may be able to give 

 them by advice in managing their woodlots. 



Accommodations. 



Outside of an office for the Director, the College has begun its work without any 

 adequate quarters. 



Through the courtesy of the Director of Sibley College, Professor Roth has found 

 temporary location in the testing laboratory of that college. The room assigned 

 has from the start proved too small to accommodate even the small number of 

 students that an entirely new course attracts, and several applicants for admission to 

 the course on timberphysics had to be turned away for lack of accommodations. 



The Director has for his lecture courses been allowed to share the room of the 

 Professor of Political Economy, a room not at all adapted to laboratory work such 

 as now required. 



The laboratory facilities of the botanical department, kindly placed at the dis- 

 posal of the Director, being cramped and, for the larger part of the available time 

 occupied by that department, have not been of avail. 



For such work as requires the handling of plants and soil, the Professor of Horti- 

 culture has offered the use of the forcing house. 



It must be evident that the first requirement for the College is its housing. The 

 absence of convenient and permanent lecture and laboratory rooms necessarily 

 retards the proper development of the College and is discouraging to both students 

 and professors. In the absence of proper storage and shop rooms it has not been 

 practical to begin with the collection of the necessary demonstration material, with- 

 out which instruction can only be partially successful. 



Tl)e College Forest. 



The demonstration area to be set aside for the use of the College in the Adiron- 

 dacks was selected by the writer in midsummer after careful inspection of the 

 available tracts, but owing to various delays it was not finally turned over to the 

 College by the Forest Preserve Board when the first report was written. 



It was, therefore, impossible to report even plans for its management with any 

 definiteness except as has been done in a general way in Bulletin No. I. Only what 

 the needs of such a management will be in general may be foreseen, and it can be 

 pointed out at once that the present small appropriation, which does not suffice for 



