DIVISION OF FORESTRY. 615- 
C.—PRACTICAL BASIS OF FORESTRY—Continued. - . 
Il.—Management of the forest and forest regulation. 
1. Methods of improving and accelerating the crop. 
a. Cultivation. 
b. Filling. 
ce. Thinning. 
d. Pruning. 
e. Undergrowing. 
2. Methods of improving forest conditions. 
a. Road-making and facilities of transportation. 
b. Survey, division into blocks, and booking (describing) area. 
ec. Protection against fire, water, shifting sands, climatic influences, 
insects, cattle, abuse of pasturage, etc. 
3. Methods of management. 
a. Timber forest. 
b. Standard coppice. 
ce. Coppice. 
d. Method of ‘“‘ selection” and other methods. 
4. Forest regulation. 
a. Ascertainment of rate of accretion; methods of determining ac- 
cretion in mass; value; yield. 
b. Ascertainment of proper rotation and determining yearly or 
periodical cut. 
c. Regulation of the use of forest by-products. 
Ul.—Harvest. : 
ip gre of cutting witha view to natural reproduction ; progressive 
fellings. 
2. Methods of securing most thorough utilization of product. 
Besides the needs of the student of forestry and of the forest 
planter there remains the necessity of aiding in a general enlighten- 
ment of the people regarding the meaning of the forestry move- 
ment, for we still expect that fhe intelligence of the people will bring 
about those economic reforms for which in the older countries the 
initiative is taken by the Government. For this reason a consider- 
abel amount of missionary work has been done by the Division 
during the past year and has entailed upon the writer the prepara- 
tion of not less than ten addresses upon as many different aspects of 
the forestry question, given before forestry and horticultural asso- 
ciations, State boards of agriculture and other societies, lectures de- 
livered in various places, the writing of many letters of advice on 
general and special questions, and of circulars of information, ete, 
Some of the latter will be found reprinted in the separate annual 
report, as also other matter of interest to all classes of readers. A 
special chapter has been devoted to the subject of experimentation, 
giving in detail the directions in which forestry experiments may be 
profitably extended by the State agricultural stations, endowed as they 
are by national appropriations. Another chapter reviews briefly 
the condition of forestry interests in each of the States and Territories. 
It must not be overlooked that the forestry problem is an essen- 
tially different one for every section of our country. 
In New England and the Northeastern States it involves probably 
the solution of the questions, what can we do to make the natural 
forest areas more quickly and more fully productive in the future? 
how can we best make our waste ‘places ‘valuable by forest growth ? 
and how can we best protect forest property? In the South the 
question may be, how can we utilize our timber to best advantage 
without impairing the continuity of the forest as a valuable prop- 
erty ? On the prairies, what can we do to secure in the quickest and 
most permanent manner such forest growth as will bring climatic 
