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They should be preserved and should continue to be administered in 

 connection with the other Forests of the Nation. 



I have been compelled in this, as in previous annual reports, to 

 confine myself to certain topics. It would be impossible within rea- 

 sonable limits to review much of the important work of the different 

 bureaus. Only by careful study of the separate reports of the chiefs 

 can one form any satisfactory idea of the extent, variety, and nature 

 of the problems which the department is attacking. 

 Eespectfully, 



D. F. Houston, 

 Secretary of Agriculture. 

 The Peesident. 



