304 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Co-operation with the United States Forest Service. 

 The State Forester wishes here to acknowledge the hearty 

 co-operation that Mr. Gifford Pinchot and his able assistants 

 have rendered whenever called upon. When requests have gone 

 in to the United States Forest Service for assistance on examina- 

 tions, lectures, etc., from Massachusetts, they have been referred 

 to this office by the Forest Service, and we have gladly co-oper- 

 ated in the work. 



Examination of Woodlands and Practical Assistance 

 given Owners. 



This work has been one of the strong features of the office from 

 the first, and nothing has been left unturned to make the work 

 effective and helpful to as many applicants as we were able to 

 assist during the year. 



All the work heretofore done by my predecessor'in office was 

 carefully gone over, and in as many cases as possible the actual 

 field examined. In every case of which there is a record in the 

 office, the owner was either seen personally or addressed, in order 

 to know just how effective the assistance has been. Not only was 

 this system carried out with the examinations and assistance of 

 this office, but the United States Forest Service heartily co-oper- 

 ated in sending a complete set of the working plans and names of 

 persons from Massachusetts who had been assisted not only 

 before this office was established but up to the present. This, 

 therefore, gives us the data at hand of practically all of the exami- 

 nations and assistance given in the State. 



After completing the above list, each person receiving assist- 

 ance was requested to furnish an up-to-date report of just what 

 he had actually accomplished. The information thus received 

 has been very valuable in guiding the work this year. Unfortu- 

 nately, there were many instances where the assistance has re- 

 sulted in nothing but an expense to the State, in that there seems 

 to be little likelihood of its ever being made use of. This is par- 

 ticularly true of some of the most elaborate and expensive work 

 this office has done. After trying to renew an interest in carrying 

 out the original plan of these earlier applicants, the attention of 

 the office was turned to the assistance of new applicants. 



There were found to be 86 citizens on record as having had 



