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SILVICULTURE 



Payments in Connection with Timber Sales 



When bonds are given in connection with timber sales, the sums named in the 

 bond, if forfeited to the United States on account of noncompliance with the terms 

 of the contract, are covered directly into the general Treasury and can not be applied 

 to the cost of cleaning up the cutting areas, or as stumpage, against timber cut in 

 advance of payment. For this reason it is imperative that all Forest officers in 

 charge of timber sales should be certain, at all times, that the sums deposited 

 in connection with the sales do actually cover the value of timber cut, whether 

 scaled or not. In case a purchaser will not be able to meet a payment soon coming 

 due, the work must be stopped at once when the right to cut under the last payment 

 expires, or a modification of contract must be applied for long enough in advance to 

 allow the preparation and execution of the necessary papers. No postponement of 

 the payment can be considered, unless the circumstances are very unusual, and all 

 applications for a modification of contract involving postponement of payment must 

 be referred to the District Forester, together with a very full statement of the circum- 

 stances and the condition of the sale area. 



PRODUCTS 



Telegraphic Addresses at the Chicago Office- 

 Telegrams for members of the Office of Wood Utilization at Chicago should be 

 addressed "Forest Service, Fisher Building, Chicago, 111." Telegrams for other 

 members of the Service, or other individuals known to be at the Chicago office, should 

 contain, in addition, the surname, for example, "Jones, Forest Service, Fisher Build- 

 ing, Chicago, 111." 



SERVICE PUBLICATIONS ISSUED IN JANUARY 



Circular 176. Surface Conditions and Stream Flow. 



Report of the Forester for 1909. 



The Use Book (Grazing Section, Revised). 



