418 ANNUAL BEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



of investigative work which do not merit separate pubUcation will 

 be issued as a means of stimulating]: interest in this branch of the work 

 of the Service and of keeping the investigators in touch with one 

 another's work. 



The series of sample plots on areas cut over under timber sales 

 will be extended as a means of conducting a continuous and com- 

 prehensive study of the results of various methods of cutting on 

 reproduction, production of wood, and general forest conditions. 



Cooperation \vith the States in fire protection will in all probabilitv 

 be materially extended. The most important feature or this work 

 will be close study of the actual protective systems put in effect by 

 the various States, both as a means of insuring efhciency in the results 

 obtained from Federal assistance and to standardize and unify as 

 far as may be desirable the protective systems adopted by the various 

 States. The investigation of forest conditions in States desiring to 

 cooperate ^vith the Government in this work and the compilation of 

 State fo'cst laws will be continued. 



The most important work confronting the Forest Service in further- 

 ance of a more general and better application of forestry in the East 

 is the standardization of silvicultural systems apphcable to the prin- 

 cipal forest types. The data already secured will make it possible 

 to do this with Uttle additional field work. A series of publications 

 covering specific areas, by States or portions of States, and containing 

 the standard silvicultural methods for the various types as developed 

 by the best experience and information, will go far toward making 

 expert information available without cost to the great mass of private 

 owners in the Eastern States. 



