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Briefly summarized, the needs of the College and demonstration forest are : 



1. Sufficient and suitable rooms for conducting the courses of the College, for 

 which a building 50 x 100 feet, two stories and a basement, were best provided. 



2. An appropriation of $12,000 for the College alone. 



3. An appropriation of $30,000 to place the demonstration forest on a proper 

 basis at once. 



4. Such legislation as will make the demonstration forest self-supporting by per- 

 mitting a certain proportion of the gross income to be applied to maintenance, 

 improvement and administration. 



It is hoped that this report sets forth, with sufficient clearness for the considera- 

 tion of the Legislature, these immediate needs for this new educational institution, 

 which is the first of its kind in the United States — a testimony of the wise foresight 

 and statesmanship of the people of the State of New York. 



Having recognized the need of a proper forest policy in the establishment of the 

 Adirondack Reserve, and the further need of educational means to secure rational 

 forest management by the establishment of this College, it remains to place the 

 latter upon an adequate and stable basis worthy of the Empire State. 



From Second Annual Report (1900): 



In order to bring the College into useful relation with the farming community, 

 the following circular letter was sent out by the Bureau of University Extension of 

 Agriculture to over 10,000 farmers, with the result of a frequent appeal for advice: 



To the Farmers of the State of New York : 



The Legislature of the State of New York provided at its last session for a Col- 

 lege of Forestry in connection with Cornell University. 



The object of this College is to teach all that is necessary to a forester. A 

 forester is a man who knows how to secure the largest continuous revenue out of a 

 forest. 



He knows how to cut the old timber so as to reproduce, not a waste but a new 

 timber crop of value, better than the original virgin growth, without the necessity 

 of planting it. He also knows how to plant and care for a woodcrop so as to pro- 

 duce the best results. 



While in the first place a forester, educated at a college, is to be a man who is 

 fit and capable of managing a large timber estate for the production of lumber for 

 the market, some of the knowledge which he must possess is also useful to the 

 owner of a small woodlot, namely, all the knowledge which we call silviculture, the 



