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mation, and organizes the work to be of standing trees, showing the amount 



subsequently carried on by the division of lumber in standing trees of different 



of administration. diameters and species ; and for tables 



showing the amount and grades or 



WORK OF THE BUREAU FOR THE quality of lumber cut from logs and 



COMING YEAR trees of different sizes and species and 



the per centage of waste due to rot, shake, 



Commencing with July, 1909, the and careless sawing. This information 

 work of both divisions of the bureau will be of value to all lumbermen in 

 will be concentrated upon the organiza- the Philippines and to those intending 

 tion of systematic forest control for to go into the lumber business. The 

 areas in northern Negros Occidental bureau by this detailed mill study will 

 and in Bataan. General administrative determine the most economic methods 

 work will be attempted for the first of milling Philippine timbers and will 

 homesteads, for the three districts will be able to make recommendations for 

 continue as before, but detailed forest changes in present methods which will 

 work will be attempted for the first mean a saving to the lumbermen, 

 time on the two areas mentioned. The The chief forestry work on the Ne- 

 plan is to take additional areas each gros and Bataan forests .will be in the 

 year for organization and subsequent collection of data as a basis for a de- 

 practice of detailed forest control and tailed working plan or plan of man- 

 management, until all public forest, agement for the two forests, including 

 which should be retained as such, is topographic and forest maps of the 

 taken in hand. The work in Bataan same, with the probable limits of the 

 and Negros will form the commence- area which should be permanently held 

 ment of this work. Up to the present in forest. This data will be gotten more 

 the administrative work by the Bureau or less in connection with the work of 

 of Forestry on public forest land has patrol and cutting of trails, which are 

 been of a very general character, but also important lines of work. For the 

 the bureau has been investigating and purposes of patrol, both of the forests 

 locating areas for future intensive ad- have been divided into three range dis- 

 ministration areas which the general tricts, with an educated Filipino ranger 

 welfare of the Filipino race demands in charge of each, and each of these 

 should be permanently held in public distri cts subdivided into a number of 

 forests managed in accordance with the , bk)cks with pm inQ dg 

 principles of forestry. During the lat- ~, ., .,, , 

 ter half of the fiscal year the division P atro1 them ' Trails U be J Ut ' h 

 of investigation will resume the work there are none alread y' as boundaries 

 of mapping the different classes of land between ranger districts and patrol 

 and will probably complete the land blocks, and secondary trails made cut- 

 classification map "for the Philippines. ting up each patrol block into a number 



The limits of the Negros and Bataan of sub-blocks. These trails will be used 



forests have been very roughly located ; for patrol and will be useful as fire 



there are probably about 160,000 hec- lines in case of fire. Topographic and 



tares in the former, and 80,000 in the forest data will be collected for each 



latter. The Insular Lumber Company sub-block by surveying out all trails cut, 



is located in the Negros forest, and the and taking care f u l topographic and 



adwallader Lumber Company in the forgst notgs while running out these 



Bataan forest, which are the two largest T ,, i i ,1 i 



,i_ i te trails. In the working plan each sub- 

 companies in the islands, and an impor- . ,. 



tant part of the work will be mill-scale block wl11 have a se P arat ? description, 



and volume work to check up the including the character and condition of 



amount of timber cut by these com- th e forest, an estimate of the timber, 



panics. This will include, also, the col- and recommendations as to work to be 



lection data as a basis for volume tables done improvements, such as tree plant- 



