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and efficiency in actual fire fighting, (s->e pp. 15-17), evidence a con- 

 tinuing advance in every line. There is still much dead wood to be 

 replaced by sound timber, and many local situations are yet in a 



TABLE IV. SUMMABY OF FOREST FIRE BUSINESS 1912 WITH SOME COMPARATIVE 

 FIGURES FROM TWO YEARS PRECEDING. 



JBurned less than five acres. 



*Two of these have been tried and are awaiting appeal. In all the others 



except one 1912 case, the offenders have left the State. 

 -tTn one additional township a division warden acts as township warden. 



condition far from satisfactory, but the year has been one of im- 

 provements so pronounced that there is nothing but encouragement 

 felt for the ensuing season. 



During the year the Forest Fire Manual, published in 1910, was 

 thoroughly revised and enlarged and has been found of great value 

 in informing both local wardens and the township officers of the 

 way in which Fire Service business should be handled. 



