EXPENSES. The following is a classified statement of the expenses for Agents: travelling expenses and samples purchased, Printing and supplies, Educational, Total, $488 92 1,953 00 2,493 12 501 32 864 50 195 18 503 96 . $7,000 00 P. M. HARWOOD, Accepted and adopted as the report of the Dairy Bureau. C. D. RICHARDSON. REPORT OF THE STATE FORESTER.' To the General Court. This office was established to promote the perpetuation, extension and proper management of forest lands within the Commonwealth, both public and private. Its activities for the year 1905 are briefly reviewed below, and some notes are included on work or conditions not directly under its supervision, but germane to the general duty of the office. PERSONNEL OF THE STATE FOREST SERVICE. There have been two additions to the service during the year. The present organization is as follows: Besides those named above who are regularly employed, an assistant in the woods, or office, is occasionally employed in case of emergency. COURSE IN FORESTRY AT THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. The course of lectures provided for in the act creating the office of State Forester was given for the first time in February and March, 1905. Twenty-nine men elected the course. This course is designed to prepare prospective farmers for the management of their wood lots. It is not designed to fit men for the practice of the profession, which usually takes two or three years of close application after the undergraduate courses have been finished. The course at the Agricultural College would no more fit a man for the practice 1 House Document, No. 350, 1906. |