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less of its promise, until its feasibility has been demonstrated on a 

 commercial scale. Here reactions show a still greater variation and 

 require greater adaptation to equipment and conditions. Repeated 

 experience has shown that the application of entirely successful experi- 

 mental results can rarely be made by the practical men of the industries 

 and that they can best be made by the investigator who conducted the 

 original research. 



Studies of an economic character have not been neglected. In 

 cooperation with the States much has been done upon the farm 

 woodlot. The problems of the lumber industry in its relation to 

 forestry are now under investigation. Other studies have been under- 

 taken to show the relation of the meat produced upon National Forest 

 ranges to the future supply of the country and of destructive lumber- 

 ing to community life and development. 



The entire experience of the Forest Service in research clearly 

 emphasizes the need for a special force of well-trained men who shall 

 be permitted to devote their entire time and efforts to the work. It 

 emphasizes the need for compactness of organization; for the annual 

 consideration of the program of work as a whole during which the 

 relative importance of all projects under way and proposed will be 

 weighed, progress checked, the entire effort of the organization coordi- 

 nated, and policies reviewed and if necessary revised; for a program 

 well balanced between pure science and applied. It emphasizes the 

 need for a definite plan of attack on each project before work is begun 

 to secure a maximum of advice and assistance and to reduce lost 

 motion to a minimum, for the annual publication of the program to 

 permit easy reference and analysis and to encourage continuity of 

 purpose and stability. 



Results from scientific research in forestry in the United States 

 have by no means been confined to the Federal Forest Service. Private 

 foresters and consulting engineers have contributed. Privately con- 

 trolled laboratories are working on problems in forest products. Not 

 less than three States are supporting forest products laboratories. A 

 number of forest schools have interested themselves to varying 

 degrees in silvical problems, and products problems as well. One State 

 has a forest experiment station. Not all forest schools, however, and 

 not all States have definitely and clearly provided for research as one 

 of their principal activities. On the whole to one not a member of a 



