In general this policy provides: 



That for the prosont the undort airing of now pro j sot a will 

 "bo restricted until thoco under way are more or lesc fully 

 completed. 



That there shall "be an actual and immediate need for any 

 Investigation Endorfcaknn and that it shall have a practical 

 bearing on the worlr of the Service* 



That projects shall "be confined to the Districts where 

 they can "be studied to the host advantage and as far as 

 possible assigned to stations equipped to handle then or to 

 men who can give their whole time ^o the work. 



It is erpected, however, that the field men will 

 still continue to malre observations ancl contribute new facts 

 as a part of their regular worlr* This applies especially 

 to the collection of volume, growth, ancl yield data in con- 

 nection with timber sales and to the gathering of 

 notes on the trees and r.hrubs of local occurrence* 



Relation of Experiment Station 7ork to the Prac- 

 tical Side of ITational ITorest Administration* 



The money spent in establishing and Creeping up 

 an experiment station is obviously not justified unless 

 the results obtained are of value in the administration of 

 the forest g Unless bettor silvicultural systems are worked 

 OTrt for the use of the forests, unless further data are set 

 forth in regard to the silvical conditions, etc. of indiv- 

 idual trees, unless accurate volume tables, growth -cables, 



stand tables, etc, are made t unless the offeot cf the For- 



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