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PUBLICATION AND EDUCATION. 



The following addresses on forest subjects were delivered in November: 



Northeastern Iowa Horticultural Society, Charles City, Iowa, November 20 to 

 22; H. P. Baker. 



National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, 111., Novem- 

 ber 21 ; Findley Burns. 



National Hickory Manufacturers' Association, Chicago, 111., November 22; 

 H. B. Holroyd. 



University of Georgia (opening of course in forestry), Athens, Ga., November 

 27 ; Alfred Gaskill. 



RECORD. 



Supplies. 



The Service has adopted a new system in the Section of Supplies by which 

 greater promptness in filling requisitions is gained. By this system all blanks 

 used in listing, invoicing, and back ordering the supplies called for are pre- 

 pared at one writing, and articles in stock are packed for shipment at once, 

 altho stored in different departments. It involves a slight change in the forms 

 used by the Property Clerk for invoice and receipt. No change is made, however, 

 in the forms used for invoicing and receipting for property transferred by one 

 member of the Service to another or to the Property Clerk. 



When articles on requisition are not in stock notice of the approximate date 

 of shipment is sent to the member for whom the articles are ordered. The 

 uncertainty in the time of delivery of supplies purchased and of blank forms 

 makes it impracticable to give definitely in advance the date when articles will 

 be shipped. 



Invoices of property should be checked up immediately upon the receipt of 

 the articles and notice given promptly of any apparent error in the ship- 

 ment or in the invoice itself. Many of the packages containing supplies are 

 shipped by mail, and delay in giving notice when articles are missing lessens 

 the chance of their recovery from the mail. Promptness should also be used in 

 returning receipts for nonexpendable property and in handling documents of 

 any kind involving responsibility for property. The correctness of the prop- 

 erty account depends largely upon the cooperation given by men in the field. 



Receipts for nonexpendable property must be signed in person by the member 

 to whose account the property is charged. The responsibility is strictly per- 

 sonal, and the signature of a member acting temporarily for another will not 

 be accepted. 



Since many of the articles called for in requisitions must be purchased it 

 is essential that forest officers and other field members anticipate their needs 

 as far as practicable. Many annoying delays, which are unavoidable if supplies 

 are procured in small quantities and at frequent intervals thruout the year, 



