FOREST SERVICE. 419 



MISCELLANZOUS. 



In addition to the detailed operations outlined in the preceding 

 pages, the activities of the Forest Service have included planning for 

 and taking care of exhibits and exhibit material at expositions; re- 

 sponses to requests for addresses before users of forest products, trade 

 associations, woodlot owners, forestry schools, and other audiences; 

 custody and use of lantern slides; and cooperation with those en- 

 gaged in teaching work, the latter including the originating of publi- 

 cations planned specifically for the assistance of teachers interested in 

 forestry. 



There were issued during the year 27 new publications and 101 

 reprints. The total number of Forest Servicepublications distributed 

 was about 406,000, as against nearly 1,497,000 in the previous year. 

 This large reduction in the number of publications distributed is 

 partly due to the fact that those issued were in much greater pro- 

 portion of too technical a character to be printed in large editions and 

 distributed widely. 



The record of public addresses by members of the Forest Service 

 shows a total of 339 delivered during the year, of which 192 were 

 delivered at expositions. Most of the latter were at the Alaska- 

 Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, at which a daily program of 

 lectures by various government officers included talks on forestry 

 and the work of the Forest Service, given by the member of the Service 

 who was in charge of its exhibit in the government building. 



Exhibits were made at four expositions: The Alaska- Yukon-Pacific 

 Exposition, at Seattle: a land and irrigation exposition, at Chicago; 

 a national corn exposition, at Omaha; and the Arkansas State Fair, at 

 Hot Springs. ^Material was sent also to the International Agricul- 

 tural Exposition at Buenos Aires. 



Cooperation with schools and teachers was continued. Of 2S7 

 normal schools in the United States, 144 now include in their curric- 

 ulum some teaching relating to forestry or tree study. By an ar- 

 rangement entered into during the year, this cooperation is now 

 conducted by the Forest Service jointly with and under the general 

 supervision of the Office of Experiment Stations of the Department 

 of Agriculture, since all work of the Department related to agricul- 

 tural education in the public scliOols is centered in that office. The 

 Ofiice of Experiment Stations is responsible for the general policy 

 and methods of the work, while the I'lorest Service is responsible for 

 the accuracy and sufficiency of the material from the standpoint of 

 fores tr}'. 



The work of the year included the \\Titing of publications to be 

 issued by the Department, prepared with specific reference to the 

 needs and practical re(|uirenients of teachers under actual school 

 contlitions by an expert in educational work. 



WORK FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. 



The work j^lanncd for the ensuing year will bo outlined under the 

 five administrative^ branches of the Forest Service. These are Lands, 

 Operation, Silviculture, Grazing, and Products. 



