THIRD ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X. 621 



The United States bureau of forestry has made an offer of expert advice 

 on the treatment of wood lots, which is well worthy the attention of those 

 who wish the best advice that careful study and wide experience can give, 

 at a nominal expense. The agreement to be entered into is as follows: 



WOOD LOT AGREEMENT. 



Washington, D. C, September 1, 1898. 

 The Department of Agiculture of the United States and John Doe, of 

 Doeville, county of Bell, state of Pennsylvania, mutually agree together 

 as follows: 



1. The Department of Agriculture, in pursuance of investigations in 

 forestry, and in order to disseminate a knowledge of improved ways of 

 handling forest lands, shall, after personal study on the ground by its 

 agent or agents, prepare a plan for harvesting the forest crop and repro- 

 ducing the forest on the land of the said John Doe, situated and described 

 as follows: 100 acres, more or less, of second growth hardwood forest 

 land, in the town of Doeville, county of Bell, state of Pennsylvania, on the 

 farm known commonly as the Old Doe Place, and in the northwest portion 

 of the same. 



2. The said plan shall be prepared for the purpose of promoting and 

 increasing the present value and usefulness of the said land to its owner, 

 and to perpetuate and improve the forest upon it. 



3. Upon completion of the said plan and its acceptance by the said 

 John Doe, the Department of Agriculture shall supervise the execution 

 thereof, so far as may be necessary. 



4. The Department of Agriculture shall render all services under 

 this agreement wholly without charge to the said John Doe, nor shall it 

 participate in any degree in the receipts and expenses arising from the 

 said land, except to defray the pay and expenses of its agent or agents. 



5. The Department of Agriculture shall have the right to publish and 

 distribute the said plan and its results for the information or farmers and 

 others whom it may concern. 



G. This agreement may be dissolved by either party upon ten days' 



notice given to the other. 



(Signed.) 



If the working plan is accepted when completed a signed acceptance is 

 made of the same. The agreement is very loose, as one readily sees, and it 

 offers the greatest freedom possible. 



The requests for working plans are taken up in regular order by the 

 bureau of forestry, with this exception; if it is thought that a working 

 plan in a locality would be especially instructive for the general public, that 

 plan will be considered out of its regular order. 



For an example of a working plan the reader is referred to the article 

 in which the above agreement was published, an article entitled "Work of 

 the Division of Forestry for the Farmer," by Gifford Pinchot, in the Year- 



