. Seed testing. (1) all seod used for planting here- 

 after to "be tostod for ge rminat i on per cent. Much 

 failure in past due to poor saod usod. (E) Methods - 

 explanation. Ecological met hoc. c of measuring forest 

 influences usod - "basically sound and worked out on 

 well established scientific principles. The results 

 of all studies will "be oirpressed in-so-far as pos- 

 sible, in absolute figures. 



Prospects for future, Srrcension of work through district 

 to take in all conditions not found on Plumas forest. 

 Eo'oo to give Supervisors 



Tl) nethods of marking and cutting more applicable 



and which will produce desired results. 

 (S) c-omplete silvical studies of individual trees, 



(3) more accurate volume and growth studies. 



(4) Reliable dope on Porest tjrpes worked out on 

 sound scientific principles* 



(5) growth and yield tables applicable to stands 

 opened up "by cutting. 



(6) effects of meteorological conditions upon tree 

 growth. 



(7) correct methods of planting - what stooli and 

 species to use, how to plant, when, on what 



aspects, factors causing greatest loss. 



IE: 10 - Adjournment, 

 Priday Afternoon 

 V/ycae , v u 



1:30 - Insect Control 'Jor!': - Its Costs and Benefits. 



HOPPIITG: 



The first informs: ' n we have on extensive depreda- 

 tions by insects in our western 1/ores'JS was probably brow^rb 

 to the attention of the Bureau of Entomology in 1898, but it 

 was some years before any control wor!: was undertaken. In 

 1904 the Bureau estimated -Jhat one billion feet had been 

 killed in the Black Hills and Colorado. During a period of 

 9 years from 1900 to 1909 very little was done in actual 

 control work. The first real demonstration in control work 



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