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heart-rots, the mistletoes of the West, the 
pin-rots of incense cedar and cypress we 
have recourse only to slight modifications 
of silvicultural practice which will enable 
such diseased trees to be marked for re- 
moval when the forest is cut. I can only 
indicate this procedure thus, in the merest 
outline. Suffice it to say that these meth- 
ods are being developed and are in practice, 
so far as developed, in four of the six dis- 
tricts of the national forests. 
In the Department of Agriculture an 
NEW YORK 
In 1898 the State Legislature established 
the New York State College of Forestry 
at Cornell University. Owing to unfor- 
tunate circumstances arising from the man- 
agement of its lands in the Adirondacks, 
the college was closed in 1903. For sev- 
eral years, since the closing of the College 
of Forestry at Cornell, there has been an 
increasing feeling that the state should not 
be without a strong College of Forestry, 
and in July, 1911, the Legislature, by spe- 
cial act, created the New York State Col- 
lege of Forestry at Syracuse University. 
The organic law of the college obligates it 
to carry on a professional course at Syra- 
cuse University and a Ranger School of 
one and two years on the College Forest 
in the Adirondacks. It requires also that 
educational work be done among the people 
throughout the state who may be interested 
in our forests and their animal life, and 
requires that investigative work be carried 
on for the purpose of solving many impor- 
tant problems in connection with the pro- 
tection and management of our forests and 
the reforestation of waste areas. To meet 
the last requirement a forest experiment 
station of 100 acres has been established 
just south of the city of Syracuse. 
The college has developed a five-year 
professional course, a one and two-year 
ranger course given on the college forest 
of 1,800 acres at Manakena, N. Y., and a 
summer camp of four weeks on Upper Sar- 
anac Lake. The camp will be held for the 
first time during August, 1913. 
As part of its educational work, the col- 
lege offers to make plans for the protection 
and management of timber lands and for 
the reforestation of waste areas. Where 
tracts of timber land and waste land are 
between 100 and 1,000 acres, and where 
there is reasonable assurance that plans 
will be carried out, they will be made at 
no expense to the owner. Where there is 
less than the above amount, it will be nec- 
essary to have owner pay expenses of trav- 
eling and sustenance while the plan is be- 
ing made. Owners of smaller tracts may 
combine and by bringing area to 100 or 
more acres have plans made without cost. 
office to study forest diseases exclusively was 
not organized until 1907. The state experi- 
ment stations and private investigators have 
paid little attention to forest diseases from 
the first. The result is that as we survey 
the field the fact that most impresses us 
is our ignorance on the practical aspects of 
the entire subject. Before we can actually 
accomplish much in the way of control we 
have got to discover, in many cases, the 
cause, the symptoms, and above all the bio- 
logical relations of any given disease, be- 
COLLEGE 
In line with its desire to be of the great- 
est service to the people of the state, the 
college is co-operating with the United 
States Forest Service in a very thorough 
study of the woodworking industries of 
New York, which will result in a complete 
report to be published early in 1913. 
The work of the college will be furthered 
by having the names of young men inter- 
ested in a course in forestry; by knowing 
of people who are beginning the planting 
of waste lands or the management of tim- 
ber tracts, or of those who wish to carry 
on such work. Dean Hugh P. Baker in- 
vites correspondence at any time as to its 
educational work or regarding the protec- 
tion and management of forests or wood 
lots, tree planting, forest insects and tree 
diseases, and timber treating. 
So many villages and cities in New York 
are interested in the right development of 
street and park planting and so much work 
is being done by men not really fitted to' 
carry on such work, that the New York 
State College of Forestry has developed a 
four-year course for training of city forest- 
ers. This course will open in September, 
1913, and, it is expected, will attract many 
young men throughout this state and New 
England. The course for a year and a 
half will consist of foundation work in 
botany, chemistry, geology and soils, math- 
ematics' and surveying. Beginning with the 
sophomore year, courses will be given in 
forestry, arboriculture, and trees and shrubs. 
Especially thorough courses will be given 
in forest entomology and pathology, and 
spraying and spraying materials. The stu- 
dents will be given an unusual amount of 
practical work in plane and topographical 
surveying, so that they may lay out streets, 
public and private grounds' and parks for 
planting. 
Many of our larger cities are now em- 
ploying trained foresters for the care of 
street and park trees, and there is every 
indication that villages and cities through- 
out the East will take on such men within 
a very short time. An interesting exam- 
ple of the attitude of the people in this 
matter is shown in Bulletin No. 100 of the 
fore we can even suggest preventive or 
curative measures. So far as possible these 
fundamental researches must be made ; but 
this is exactly what is the hardest thing 
to do, for it is most difficult to get either 
financial or moral support for work of this 
sort. The community pays the physician 
for his routine services, but if one phy- 
sician desires not to cure disease, but to 
investigate how disease now incurable may 
be cured in the future, the community has 
little support for him. 
OF FORESTRY 
Massachusetts Forestry Association, which 
is entitled “150 Trained Foresters Wanted 
in Massachusetts.” This circular goes on 
to say that this may not be the exact num- 
ber needed, but that the cities are consider- 
ing the taking on of trained men, and that 
all of the cities of Massachusetts and fully 25 
per cent of the towns are capable of sup- 
porting foresters. This same might he 
said of the future in New York, New Jer- 
sey, Pennsylvania and other Eastern states. 
Many of the cities are purchasing consid- 
erable areas of wild land to be used even- 
tually for parks, and some of this wild 
land is forested and should be given proper 
silvicultural treatment, both for future 
park effects and to give a reasonable in- 
come from cordwood and other supplies 
from the forest. There are numerous ex- 
amples of cities in Europe which own suf- 
ficient forest land to provide an income 
which supports the entire administration, 
doing away with all taxes. It may be some 
time before such conditions arise in this 
country, and yet the fact remains that there 
is now a strong demand for men thoroughly 
trained as city foresters. 
At the close of the college registration in 
November there were enrolled 110 fresh- 
men and 47 men from the second year on. 
These 160 young men represent sixteen 
states and two foreign countries. Because 
of the almost constant demand for men 
trained to do practical woods work and 
with some knowledge in forestry, the col- 
lege opened in September the State Forest 
Ranger School at Wanakena, N. Y. The 
Rich Lumber Co. at Wanakena gave the 
school 1,800 acres for forestry purposes and 
this ranger school is being developed on 
what is known as the college forest. At 
present there are sixteen hoys and two in- 
structors there. This school is giving a 
training and not an education, preparing 
young men for certain positions interme- 
diate between the average woodsman and 
the trained forester. They believe that this 
kind of training will fit men who will fill 
a distinct need in the future work in lum- 
bering. So, too, in connection with the 
course in city forestry they expect to be 
placing boys in practical lines of work. 
STATE 
