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touch with the work and give assistance through advice and publi- 

 cation. The general scheme is for the members of the Association 

 to act in harmony and do a definite amount of planting annually. 

 Plant material will be obtained in wholesale quantities from nurs- 

 erymen, or grown in an Association nursery. 



The study of white fir {Abies coticolor) and the application of 

 methods of fire protection on a definite tract, which the Forest 

 Service has been carrying on in cooperation with the State of 

 California, are practically finished, and P. D. Kelleter, who had 

 charge of this work, has returned to Washington. The investi- 

 gation of White Fir is a commercial tree study and is of particular 

 value since the exploitation of this tree has been neglected, and 

 its value little understood. The work on fire protection was done 

 on the large tract of the McCloud River IvUmber Co. , in Siskiyou 

 County, and is a continuation of work started last year. The ob- 

 ject is to demonstrate to lumbermen that systematic plans of fire 

 protection, which lay particular stress on fire prevention, are 

 practicable, and that preventive measures and prompt action with 

 fires that start will result in a marked saving over the loss and 

 cost of fire-fighting under unsystematic management. 



The work of the Forest Service on the Wassamasan tract of 

 the E. P. Burton Lumber Company, in South Carolina, which 

 was mentioned in the last issue of the Quarterly, has been 

 finished. H. G. Merrill is now in Washington preparing his 

 report. The preparation of this working plan is of especial in- 

 terest since it is for lands of a large southern lumber company 

 which has a trained forester in its employ, and which carries on 

 lumbering operations according to plans of management insur- 

 ing a continuous timber supply. 



The Forest Service is attempting to arouse the farmers of the 

 Middle West to a realization of the possibilities and value of 

 forest planting on their lands, through the medium of Farmers' 

 Institutes. F. W. Besley has traveled three weeks through 

 western Colorado with a Farmers' Institute party, giving lectures 

 on farm forestry and related subjects. He is now with another 

 party giving a similar series of talks in the plains region of 

 eastern Colorado. In Nebraska, C. A. Scott has been engaged 



