Cost of 

 forestry 

 service 



Forest 

 maps 



manager. With these he can avoid over-valuation for taxation, 

 can buy or sell with correct bargaining, and can place his logging 

 contracts in the right locality and under right restrictions. 

 He can also avoid leaving over-mature or diseased timber to 

 become total losses. At every point increased knowledge adds 

 to the profit and increases the efficiency of operations. There 

 is never a premium on not knowing the exact conditions with 

 which one has to deal. 



The cost of obtaining definite knowledge, based on adequate 

 field work, varies in price from 4 cents to 20 cents per acre, 

 according to the fineness of the work, number of subdivisions, 

 speed in carrying out contracts, accessibility of tract, size of 

 area, character of topography, character of timber, etc. This 

 means from ^4% to 3% of the value of ordinary woodland. 

 Considering that the work once done will furnish accurate 

 information for a lifetime it will be seen that the cost is com- 

 paratively small. 



As a record of this work the manager or owner will have 

 before him maps of his property, showing boundary lines and 



interior division 

 lines, lakes, impor- 

 tant streams, roads, 

 burnt areas, bogs, 

 and clearings, with 

 camps, dams and 

 other definite feat- 

 ures accurately de- 

 lineated; barometric 

 contour lines at the 

 necessary interval to 

 give topography; 

 colored and de- 

 scribed growth 

 types. At a glance 

 the manager can see 

 his whole territory 

 far better than by 

 a casual examina- 

 tion in the field 

 Have you slow-growing, shallow-rooted areas like Q f t ne property 

 this, which should not be thinned 



but cut clean? Itself. 



