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Washington office and District 7 office will be supplied from Wash- 

 ington. 



The plan heretofore followed in furnishing copies of the Manual to 

 individuals or associations cooperating with the Forest Service, such as 

 advisory boards of stock associations and other similar organizations, 

 is discontinued. Many of the instructions contained in the Manual 

 relate entirely to matters of administration and official action which 

 unless carefully studied are liable to misinterpretation. 



A revised edition of the public Use Book is being prepared and this 

 will contain all the regulations and such parts of the instructions as 

 are necessary for the public to understand policies of the Forest Service 

 and the principles governing the administration of the National Forests, 

 and copies of it will be furnished all such individuals and associations 

 applying for them. 



There is no objection, however, to forest officers allowing individuals 

 to look over their copy of the Manual, as there is nothing contained 

 therein that is considered as confidential or which the general public 

 should not see, provided the book does not pass from the possession of 

 the forest officer to whom it belongs. 



FORESTER. 

 Establishment of the Branch of Research 



In conformity with Memorandum No.. 121 of the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, a Branch of Research will be established in the Forest Service 

 within the next two months. Its purpose is to bring together under 

 one executive direction as many of the various lines of research or 

 investigative work conducted by the Forest Service as practicable. 

 Correlation between the various kinds of investigative work has been 

 secured effectively during the past three years by the central and 

 district investigative committees. Carrying this correlation a step 

 farther, it now seems advisable to place most of the lines of research 

 under the direction of a member of the Forester's staff who can give 

 his entire time to these duties. 



The work of the new branch will include all of the silvicultural 

 investigations conducted by the Forest Service ; the development of 

 private forestry in the Eastern States ; the Forest Products Laboratory 

 at Madison, Wis. ; the industrial and utilization investigations in forest 

 products conducted at Washington and at various district headquar- 

 ters ; and the other economic investigations of the Service, such as the 

 study of the lumber industry now in progress and studies of lumbering 

 costs and methods, markets, etc., in connection with the administration 

 of the National Forests. The grazing studies will remain under the 

 Branch of Grazing and will be handled in correlation with the other 

 studies. 



While thus seeking to bring together the investigative work of the 

 Service more effectively, it is essential to retain the intimate relation- 



