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Excerpt from 1875-1925 Semi-Centennial of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station The station established an experimental forest for the study of forest problems, aided in the planting of private and corp-oration forests, besides giving advice by addresses and field demonstra tions in the management of the farmer's wood lot. These illustrations, by no means a summary, give some idea of the range of the station's work and Show how it has gradually become a public service agency. While designed solely for the benefit of agriculture and while its main effort is directed to that end, circumstances have drawn it, in several directions into the service of the whole community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.