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cerning the Taylor System and the resiihs of Scientific Manage- 

 ment in a great conservation of human energy. The forester, as 

 well as the lumberman, can meet on this common ground with mu- 

 tual interest in, and no prejudices concerning the problems to be 

 solved. The forester who can demonstrate the efficiency of this 

 system will have won the confidence and enthusiastic backing of 

 his employer, and will then be in a much better position to advo- 

 cate measures dealing with the conservation of the forest. There- 

 fore, it seems extremely desirable that forest schools should en- 

 courage original investigations in the application of the Taylor 

 System of Scientific Management in the woods. 



The first step to be taken is that of determining what constitutes 

 a fair day's work for each man employed, that is, a standard task 

 is determined after an exhaustive time study of its various com- 

 ponent parts. Let us take for illustration the task referred to in 

 the beginning of this article, namely, that of determining the 

 amount of work which a saw crew should do in a day. 



We will assume that a camp is selected in the southern pine 

 woods where sawyers are employed at $3 per day each, to fell 

 Long-leaf Pine and saw into lengths. The observer will equip 

 himself with a stop watch, paper and pencil, and first analyze the 

 operations performed. The work may, it is suggested, be divided 

 as follows : 



1. Time required to make the undercut (give depth of under- 

 cut) ; 



2. Time required to fell the tree (give species and diameter ) ; 



3. Time required to trim the tree of limbs ; 



4. Time required to saw off each length (give diameters). 



Each of the above processes may, if desirable, be subdivided still 

 further, as : 



1. Number of strokes of saw required to cut through a certain 

 diameter ; 



2. Length of stroke ; 



3. Number of strokes per minute ; 



4. Time spent in wedging, and in oiling saw, etc. 



One of the best of the saw crews is selected for observation, and 



