.- lii.lrLoctod-1;ro-0s from going to 

 waato. It is cloar that it would havo boon impossible TO 

 shape and insort tho Sanitation clauso in timber salo con- 

 tracts without tho sympathetic aid of "both tho District 

 Forester and tho Ghiof of Silvioulturo. Tho clauso lias "boon 

 in of foot in this District for more than 2 years, and so 

 far, no -c rouble with purchasers has como fron it* On tho 

 contrary, one of tho "beneficial effects so ens to have been 

 the fact that "by the system of sample narkinc, which dovol- 

 opod in closo connection with tho enforcement of tho clauso, , 

 a sorious source of friction was eliminated. Tho purchaser 

 Imov/s noro or lose, exactly what ho is going to got; tho 

 fellers no longer object to foiling a treo ho cause it is 

 decayed. 



Tho advantages gained "by the Sanitation clauso aro 

 threefold, 7o remove a sorious firo menace and accomplish 

 sanitation of tho Porost ; sample marking eliminates friction 

 with tiio purchaser and puts tho whole deal on a strictly 

 "business basis, and finally, wo save tho merchant able timber 

 contained in disos.sod and malformed trees and got paid for 

 it. That thic saving may "bo very much noro considerable 

 than appears at first look, is evidenced by tho results of 

 a study on the & A. Burns salo on tho Shasta* ~n exact 

 tally of every troo above 12 n D*B.E. on B5 acres with an 

 ostimate of the number of merchantable and unmor chant able 



