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The special educational work consists of cooperation with teachers, 

 club women, young peoples' forestry clubs, and other organizations. 

 In 1931, 10 travelling school exhibits made up of picture panels, 

 photographic prints, wood samples, and publications were loaned to 

 53 schools and a number of other organizations, and were shown to 

 about 31,000 persons. 



In connection with the cooperative fire protection work discussed 

 in the section entitled " Federal Financial and Other Direct Aid to the 

 States," the time of one man is devoted exclusively to giving addresses 

 on forestry. The itineraries for these lectures are arranged by State 

 forestry agencies. In 1931, 173 addresses were made to approxi- 

 mately 40,650 people. These lectures are believed to have aided 

 materially in the spread of forestry information and enthusiasm and 

 aided materially in bringing in valuable support to the State projects. 



DEMONSTRATION AND ADVICE 



Practically the entire time of two representatives of the Forest 

 Service is spent among the owners of timberlands and farm wood- 

 lands in the East, with the object of improving forest practice by 

 advice and demonstration. In the plains region of the West Central 

 States an important contribution to forestry has been made by such 

 field stations of the Bureau of Plant Industry as those at Mandan, 

 N.Dak., Cheyenne, Wyo., and Woodbridge, Ohio. At the Mandan 

 station, for example, trees have been produced and supplied to selected 

 ranch owners for the establishment of demonstration windbreaks in 

 eastern Montana and western North Dakota. This activity has been 

 invaluable to the States of the Great Plains in connection with the 

 successful development of tree distribution and farm forestry exten- 

 sion work, especially in the parts of these States where a deficiency 

 in rainfall results in little or no natural tree growth. 



NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON WOOD UTILIZATION, UNITED STATES 

 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 



This committee, organized in 1925, is made up of about 200 mem- 

 bers representing professional groups and trade 'associations inter- 

 ested in the production, distribution, and consumption of forest 

 products. Its aim is to encourage reforestation through intelligent 

 use of wood. The committee is particularly interested in furthering 

 more efficient use of wood in building and construction. It works in 

 close cooperation with both public and private agencies. 



