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portance, are many which will in time, and after investigation 

 prove valuable. 



The rating of the relative values of this assortment of trees ; 

 the distinguishing between those commercially desirable, and 

 the others, the testing of those which have been selected as com- 

 mercially valuable, to ascertain their strength and fitness ; the 

 supplying of merchants and engineers with specimens and infor- 

 mation, and the directing of all concerned how to obtain the 

 maximum good with the minimum waste from our wooded 

 lands — these are a few of the problems which daily confront the 

 Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine Islands. 



