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FORESTRY IN THE STATES. 



since 1906 when the Experiment Station undertook to find 

 seedlings for planters at reasonable prices. During 2 recent 

 years private owners planted 350,000 trees; water companies 

 and similar concerns planted 200,000 trees; and the state 

 planted 85,000 trees, making a total planted for forestry pur- 

 poses in Connecticut of 635,000 trees. 



The Experiment Station since 1901 has been conducting 

 ^ experiments in forest planting at Rainbow, Connecticut, and 



within 2 years has acquired 4 acres of 30-year-old white pine 

 which had been established by seed sowing. On this latter tract 

 experiments in thinning were conducted in the spring of 1909. 

 The trees on these experiment plots will be measured periodi- 

 cally and further thinnings made as required, the whole being 

 conducted as a scientific experiment in the handling of white 

 pine forests. The accumulated results of this experiment and 

 the work at Rainbow are published from time to time. 



Upon application private owners throughout the state are 

 given assistance in the planting of forests and the management 

 of woodland. The expenses of travel and the subsistence of the 

 Forester while engaged on the work are borne by the private 

 owner. The result of this work has been the undertaking by 

 many water companies and by private land owners of definite 

 forest work, as indicated above. 



So far as there is opportunity the Forester spreads the 

 knowledge of forestry by means of addresses before associa- 

 tions, granges and other public meetings. 



^ DELAWARE. 



During the 1909 session of the Legislature of the state of 

 Delaware a law was passed entitled, *'An Act to Establish a 

 State Board of Forestry." This Board is to consist of 5 mem- 

 bers: the Governor, the Secretary of State, President of the 

 State Board of Agriculture, Director of the Experiment Sta- 

 tion, and the Forester of Delaware College, who is to act as 

 secretary of the Forestry Board. Under the law the Forester 

 is to have charge of all forestry matters in the state. Among 

 the particular duties prescribed are: 



