. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1344 Rural School Leaflet fanning; and it has served in Europe to prevent millions of acres from becoming useless, barren waste. 2. Forestry helps to regulate the distribution of water and to lessen the rigors of climate, and in so doing it aids all forms of agriculture. It cares for nature's greatest means for beautifying the earth. 3. It provides
. Annual report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University and the Agricultural Experiment Station. New York State College of Agriculture; Cornell University. Agricultural Experiment Station; Agriculture -- New York (State). 1344 Rural School Leaflet fanning; and it has served in Europe to prevent millions of acres from becoming useless, barren waste. 2. Forestry helps to regulate the distribution of water and to lessen the rigors of climate, and in so doing it aids all forms of agriculture. It cares for nature's greatest means for beautifying the earth. 3. It provides a local supply of timber and protects the farmer and the townsman against exorbitant prices of importation; it stimulates local industries, :md thus creates a local market for produce. 4. It is not a new and untried industr}^ but has been in actual practice for more than a thousand ^xars and has not failed in any locality where it has been correctly and consistently practiced. 5. It is of particular interest to farmers, since it adds to the value and the beauty of the farm and to the safety, the comfort, and the income of the farmer; and it does all this without great expenditure of capital or labor. 6. It is well suited to state, count}^ and townshij? owner- ship and enterprise, and could well be utilized in this State,. A plantation of Nonvay spruce, twenty-two years old as it is in the Old World, to maintain larger tracts of inferior lands in useful condition and at the same time lessen the tax burden in the very locality where the taxes weigh heavily. To sum up, then, the forest is needed everywhere because people must be supplied with wood and timber; it makes the best crop on all rough and poor lands; it regulates water disttibution and local climate; and it beautifies the land. The question now comes. What can the rural school do in forestry? This question has not yet been answered, nor will it be until much thought and experiment have developed good pedagogy of forestry
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