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salary allotment, and the annual report of distribution of services compiled from the 

 monthly reports will give the basis of ascertaining in the Washington office, in 

 accordance with the classification given in the form, the distribution of the total 

 amount disbursed in salaries. The services of the Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor, 

 and clerks should be accounted for under "Miscellaneous Executive Duties." It 

 will be noted that the detailed classification is restricted to actual work and that 

 time in which no work is performed will be given only in the summary. The last 

 line in the summary, "Sundays and holidays, no work performed," will be used to 

 account for all days upon which, because of weather or other conditions, neither 

 field nor office work is done. Men engaged upon improvement or other work which 

 occupies their full time, however, will charge days upon which no work can be done 

 to the particular project or line of work. The classes of work have been made fewer 

 and more comprehensive, and the changes will not prevent the Supervisor from 

 regrouping the classes given in reports already made on the old form for the first 

 three months of the fiscal year in compiling his annual report of distribution 

 of service. 



SILVICULTURE 



Cooperation in Insect Control Work 



The Bureau of Entomology will, as rapidly as possible, place a district field agent 

 of its Branch of Forest Insect Investigations in each of the National Forest Districts. 

 The names and addresses of these agents will appear in the Field Program each 

 month. Hereafter information of bodies of unhealthy or dying timber or of any 

 timber showing evidence of infestation should be sent directly to the proper district 

 field agent, accompanied by notes on accessibility, and, when possible, by specimens. 

 These reports will be investigated, so far as possible, by the district field agent, the 

 danger to National Forest timber determined, and recommendations, prepared by the 

 Bureau of Entomology, sent to the District Forester. The application of these recom- 

 mendations to the infested area will be carried out under the orders of the District 

 Forester; but every advantage should be taken of the opportunity to secure sugges- 

 tions from the district field agent for the best methods of carrying out the essential 

 details. He should always be notified what work is planned and be given an oppor- 

 tunity to be present at the time it is done, if it be possible for him to do so. The 

 district field agent should also be supplied with reports of the result of any work done 

 in combating insect infestation on National Forests within the district. For the pres- 

 ent, district field agents will be placed in Districts 1 and 2 only. The foregoing pro- 

 cedure will be put in effect in other districts on notification of the assignment of 

 agents. 



SERVICE PUBLICATION ISSUED IN SEPTEMBER 



Circular 107. The Status of Forestry in the United States. 



