Forestry Tracts. 



By WILLIAM F. FOX. 



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PARTRIDGE FOR SUPPER. 



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HE State Forestry law, Section 6, Article XII, 

 provides that this Commission " shall take 

 measures for awakening an interest in behalf 

 of forestry, and imparting elementary instruction on 

 such subject"; that it "shall prepare and distribute 

 tracts and circulars of information"; and that "these 

 publications shall be furnished without cost to any 

 citizen of the State on application." 



It would be impracticable in these minor publica- 

 tions to discuss the entire subject of forestry. Nor 

 would that be necessary ; anyone wanting to pursue 

 this study will have no difficulty in finding text 

 books, written by recognized authorities, in which 

 every branch is treated with exhaustive detail. The 

 tracts issued by the Commission are intended to out- 

 line the subject only, and to furnish without expense, 

 in some convenient form, a knowledge of certain 

 elementary principles beyond which the general 

 reader may not care to go. 



This series of tracts, which are entitled, " Short 

 Talks on Forestry and Kindred Subjects," embrace 

 the following topics: 



1. Forest Preservation in New York. 



2. Forestry. 



3. Forest Management. 



4. Forest Fires. 



5. Tree Planting and Pruning. 



6. Climatic Influence of Forests. 



7. The Farmer's Wood Lot. 



8. How Trees Grow. 



9. Culture of Nut-bearing Trees. 

 10. Forestry in Europe. 



The first five numbers appear in the following pages of this Report ; the others 

 will be printed in the next Report of the Commission. The series will be further 

 extended from time to time by similar publications on other topics related to forestry 

 matters. There may be some who will want to make a more thorough study of 

 forestry than is afforded by these primary leaflets, persons who do not contemplate 

 taking up forestry work or attending any of our forestry schools, but who may want to 



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