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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... and lumber and material for a thousand trades, but it is a cover which conserves the moisture, equalizes the distribution of water and protects the arable lands. A large part of the country must always find its most profitable use in the growth of the forest cover, but the common intelligence upon the subject is so low that even wise legislation upon forestry matters is jeopardized. We shall soon find, to our sorrow, that forestal instruction should have been given long ago. In the meantime, I hope that Cornell may take a new and advanced position in regard to it, and that the State will open its forest reservations as laboratories to students. An appropriation of $10,000, with the privilege of the reservations would put such a department upon a satisfactory basis." It was considered to be essential that students in the regular course in agriculture should have a ground-work in the sciences allied to agriculture, and in history, economics and other branches. Political economy was considered to be "quite as important as any specific agricultural topic," inasmuch as we are to train citizens as well as farmers; and " no part of our population is now giving more original thought to economic problems than the farmers." It may interest the reader to know what was the constitution of the College of Agriculture twenty-two years ago, long before it became a state institution. "The statute of the University defines the College of Agriculture to be 'Constituted by the co-ordination of the departments of General, Analytical and Agricultural Chemistry, Botany, Horticulture, Vertebrate and Invertebrate Zoology and Entomology, Veterinary Science, Geology, and the several branches of Theoretical and Practical Agriculture.'" Under this definition the number of students at presen...
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