festation increases rat ho r than deer oases and that in 1912 

 we saved this sim of 1,217. 33 and the sane in 1913, so that 

 ny 1915 or in four years at an o^enclitnre of $1,864,44 we 

 ave actually saved $3,004,04 in actual standing timber. Of 

 course this could not go on forever. Infestations die' out 

 after a number of years, "but 'jhe fact remains that we have 

 actualljr saved timber which would have "been destroyed and 

 that it shows a j rof it in actual dollars and cents and in a 

 period of not over two or throe years. 



Here in California we have two classes of infesta- 

 tion: the so-called "normal" and the looal infestations 

 above the normal, where it becomes so bad that oven the 

 settlers notice it. In theee local infestations we have, or 

 shall, institute control y>ro;jocts "but in the normal infest- 

 ation, whloh .:'-. ,1s throughout our entire fellow and sugar 

 pine belt, we have a conditionwhich the rangers must handle 

 through the winter months. i'here are two things a ranker 

 must Iznow before bo gins this wor:r. He must be able to 

 tell an infected tree when he sees it; and lie must Irnow what 

 to do when he finds such a tree. 3y the first I mean a tree 

 with a live brood in it. Te can most of us toll a tree which 

 has been IdLlled by insects at some tine, but are they still 

 there? How does the troe loo>: whon they are still in it? 

 Uo-7 that is TThat the rangers must IinoW and the only way for 



them to fine out is to show- them or tell them at the Ran- or 



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