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tion, if equipped with such technical advisors, by showing to these 
forest owners the financial advantages of such management. In addi- 
tion, the State should provide at the university or in connection with 
some other educational institution the means for the study of forestry. 
In the United States the State of New York promises to be the first 
to enter upon a really rational forest policy. It spent $1,000,000 last 
year for the purchase of forest land in addition to the 700,000 acres it 
owned before, and this year it voted another half million dollars for the 
same purpose. At the same time it provided a demonstration area of 
30,000 acres, more or less,on which, under the direction of Cornell 
University, a demonstration of practical forestry methods is to be made 
which may serve as a model for the management finally of the entire 
State forest reserve; and a fully organized State college of forestry 
has just been established in connection with Cornell University, which 
will provide the managers of the State property and foster generally 
education in forestry—assuring a stable forest policy at least for that 
State. 
Bb. E. FERNow, 
Chief Division of Forestry. 
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 20, 1898. 
