(From tie Forest Service, United States Department of Agricultui c 



San Francisco Office ) 



FOREST EXHIBITS 

 FOR CALIFORNIA 



168-F (12 G) 



Part of the governemnt r s exhibit for the Panama 

 California exposition at San Diego leaves V-ashington this 

 week. This portion has to do with the national forests in 

 Hew l.lexico, and will be shown in the Hew MexAco building, 

 the exhibit having been pre pared in cooperation with the 

 state b^ard of exposition commissioners of that state, The 

 material also shows specimens of the principal ti iber trees 

 ^f New Iviexico and their uses, 



Other exposition material is to leave soon for 

 San Francisco, where it will form a part of the Panama-Pacific 

 exposition. Part of this is being prepared through coopera- 

 tion between the Forest Service and the United States civil 

 service commission. The commission passes on the qualifica- 

 tions of all candidates for positions in the forest service, 

 testing the fitness of those who wish to become forest officers 

 through outdoor examinations in riding, surveying, timber 

 estimating, and similar matters as well as my more conventional 

 methods; its exhibit will illustrate the duties of these of- 

 ficers. 



Cooperation also exists, in the preparation of ex- 

 hibit' material , between the forest service and the bureau of 

 education. This shows how forest subjects are used in public 

 schools, in connection with nature study, commercial ^eography, 

 agriculture, and the like. One of the exhibits is a display 

 made by the normal school pupils of the District of Columbia, in 

 *hich c number of those who are studying for teachers' positions 

 entered a prize contest on tree study. Each of the contestants 

 prepared a -separate exhibit showing the life history anc 'che 

 products of individual trees, such as white pine, hickory, or 

 suffer ma^le. 



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