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facturers of wood products who use comparatively small pieces as 

 their raw material, and met with hearty cooperation from manufac- 

 turers. A field study of southern pine in the Southeast, to determine 

 the quality of wood grown in the various parts of the Southeast and 

 the quality of lumber in typical markets in the East and Middle 

 West, secured data of immediate practical value to a number of asso- 

 ciations and engineering societies in formulating more satisfactory 

 gi'ading rules. A preliminary report on the box industry furnished 

 information of considerable use in recent investigations of shipping 

 containers by other departments of the Government, 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Twenty-seven new publications were issued. In all, 388,000 copies 

 of Forest Service publications were distributed. The total number 

 of books and pamphlets in the library was increased to 18,245; 

 1,072 new ones were added, and 560 which were either duplicates or 

 out of date were eliminated. To the libraries maintained in dis- 

 trict and supervisors' offices and the Forest Products Laboratory were 

 added 1,266 books and pamphlets, bringing the total number in these 

 libraries to 29,814. 



Members of the Forest Service delivered 149 public addresses, 

 mainly in response to requests from educational institutions, associa- 

 tions of lumbermen, technical societies, and National Forest users. 



Exhibits consisting of bromide enlargements, transparencies, maps, 

 models, specimens, and charts were made at the Western Pennsyl- 

 vania Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pa.; the Boston Pure Food and Do- 

 mestic Science Exposition, Boston, Mass. ; the demonstration train of 

 the Kentucky State Experiment Stations, Kentuclry; the Seaside 

 Exposition, Asbury Park, N. J. ; Vermont agricultural fairs ; the New 

 York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y. ; the Kentucky State Fair, Louis- 

 ville, Ky. ; Master House Painters and Decorators' Association, 

 Washington, D. C. ; the Arkansas Press Association, Harrison, Ark. ; 

 Ninth Dry Farming Exposition, Wichita, Kans. ; Panama-California 

 Exposition, San Diego, Cal. ; and the Panama-Pacific International 

 Exposition, San Francisco, Cal. In connection with the exhibit at 

 the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 223 lectures were de- 

 livered and a series of motion pictures of an educational nature 

 shown daily. For three of the expositions aii appropriation was 

 made by Congress ; in the case of the others the expenses involved in 

 making the exhibits were borne by the exposition authorities. 



