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posed of the Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor and Forest Assistant. 

 These three members always go out together to do the marking. 

 If possible, rangers from adjoining districts where conditions are 

 practically the same are called in to go out with the marking 

 board. The scheme has worked well and we feel that a great 

 deal of good has come from it. A more uniform policy is estab- 

 lished on the forest, and mistakes are avoided." 



Assistant District Forester Moore closed the lengthy discussion 

 with a summary of the points brought out, as follows : 



"Mr. Lovejoy has laid stress upon the fact that the purchaser 

 wants to know how much timber he is going to be allowed to cut 

 rather than the kind and number of trees. I think that these 

 two points are very closely related and that by means of marking 

 sample areas under the direction of the forest marking board, we 

 are going to be able to tell the purchaser more accurately how 

 much timber he will get. We have had some pretty wild esti- 

 mates on sales made in the past, which is evidence that sufficient 

 attention was not given in advance to the manner in which these 

 timber sales were to be marked. It is very clear that we should 

 give more consideration to the marking at the beginning of a sale 

 and determine as accurately as we can the number of trees that 

 will be marked and the kind; then we are going to be closer in 

 our estimates. There are a great many reasons why we should 

 get the purchaser on a timber sale in advance of operations and 

 it seems to me absolutely essential that this be done. The pur- 

 chaser should certainly know the boundaries of his sale area on 

 the ground. All the points likely to come into controversy should 

 be settled before the sale, particularly with a new purchaser." 



Brush Disposai, 



Supervisor Lovejoy opened the discussion and the following 

 is a condensation of his paper : 



"The principal benefit of any form of brush disposal is the fire 

 protection which it is presumed to give. In addition to the fire 

 protection, there may be a secondary benefit in the increase of 

 reproduction. The undesirable factors are principally the loss 

 to the soil of the material which should go into it, the danger to 

 standing trees left after the cutting from the injury by fire and the 

 cost. Any brush disposal or brush piling is good disposal or 



