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DUTIES OF PRODUCTS MEN IN DISTRICTS. 



Close attention should be given to problems arising in the utilization of 

 forest products on the National Forests. To assist in this Products representa- 

 tives are assigned to certain districts, their duties being as follows: 



(1) To carry on investigations for administrative purposes at the direction 

 of the District Forester. Such investigation should be closely coordinated 

 with or made a part of the district work in Silviculture. 



(2) To carry on investigations for scientific purposes in forest products, in 

 accordance with the approved program' of investigative work and under the 

 direction of the Branch of Products. The duties and responsibilities of the 

 District Foresters in reference to such investigations are stated in Service 

 Order 41, and are identical with their duties and responsibilities in connection 

 with other lines of investigative work in the districts. 



Investigations for administrative purposes will have priority and should 

 take precedence over scientific investigations, when necessary, in the judgment 

 of the District Foresters, subject to the following procedure : 



(1) The cost of investigations to secure information upon which to base 

 timber sale contracts or policies will be paid from G. A. funds, except as 

 noted below. 



(2) When, in the opinion of the District Forester, it is deemed expedient 

 to withdraw a man from general investigative work in Products and assign 

 him to administrative work in connection with timber sales, the District 

 Forester should : 



() Notify the chief of Products in cases where it is necessary to make 

 other arrangements for continuing the investigative projects. 



(&) Provide for the expenses incident to the administrative assignments 

 from G. A. funds and not from funds allotted for the investigative projects in 

 Products. 



(3) When it is necessary for a man assigned to general investigative work 

 in Products to devote only a part of his time to administrative assignments, 

 and such assignments do not materially interfere with his investigative work, 

 his entire salary may be paid from the allotment for Products, but in all 

 cases the traveling and other expenses incident to administrative assignment? 1 , 

 should be paid .from G. A. funds and charged to timber sales. When the full 

 time of the man is required for such administrMtive assignments he should 

 be transferred from the general investigative work to timber sales, and other 

 provision made for conducting the investigative projects which have been 

 assigned to him. 



DUTIES OF SUPERVISORS IN RELATION TO PRODUCTS WORK. 



That the Products work in the districts may be of most value to the admin-, 

 istratiou of the National Forests, it should be the duty of the supervisor to. 

 request the District Forester for information regarding the strength or other 

 properties of wood on their forests; to call to the attention of the District For-* 

 ester the unmarketable species on their forests which occur in sufficient quanti- 

 ties to warrant an investigation of their properties and suitability for pulp, 

 alcohol, turpentine, or other wood products, and also to cooperate with the 

 Products representatives in investigating the supply and demands for stumpage 

 upon their forests, the extent, character, and cost of logging operations in the 

 vicinity, the use and manufacture of different classes of timber, and the demand 

 for various forest products. They should ascertain possible uses for dead tim- 

 ber, inferior species, and material not used in current sales, and should make 

 every effort to promote the use of such classes of material by informing possible 

 purchasers. In this connection the work of Products will closely correlate with 

 that of timber sales. 



In the permanent improvement work on the Forests the supervisor will be 

 given all possible assistance in applying a proper preservative treatment to the 

 timbers used, such as poles, posts, etc. When in the judgment of the super- 

 visor a preservative treatment is advisable and practical, he should communicate 

 with the District Forester before such timbers are put into use. If a preserva- 

 tive treatment is decided upon, it should be given in accordance with the in- 

 structions contained in the publication entitled " Instructions for the Building 

 and Maintenance of Telephone IJnes on the National Forests." 



At the discretion of the District Forester, small experimental treating plants. 

 will be constructed and operated on or near National Forests where they will be 

 of value to the Forests and to the community. The object of such plants will 



