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was authorized by congressional action. Two editions 

 of 10,000 each have since been printed, and since they, 

 too, proved insufficient, a Farmers' Bulletin edition 

 became necessary. Of this, 170,000, in eight editions, 

 have been printed, making the total issue of the Primer 

 to the present time 225,000 copies. Another instance 

 is The Woodman's Handbook, a compilation of log 

 scales and rules for forest measurements. The first 

 edition of 15,000 was not off the press before the 

 necessity for an additional supply was realized, and 

 before the demand began to slacken, 25,000 copies, in 

 three editions, were printed. The circulars giving the 

 Bureau's offers of cooperation have passed through the 

 press sixteen times in all, with a total issue of 123,000. 



To sum up, the Bureau is not only the direct and 

 prevailing force behind the forest movement in this 

 country, but it is furthering the application of those 

 new and better methods on the ground without which 

 the broadest, the most enlightened forest policy will 

 utterly fail. It has, in my judgment, reached its pres- 

 ent achievement, and it possesses its power of future 

 achievement, as the direct result not only of an ade- 

 quate organization and a comprehensive point of view, 

 but above all because it keeps the practical aspect of 

 its work constantly before it ; because its policy is not 

 one of arbitrary interference, but to bring about a 

 relation between the forest and the interests dependent 

 upon it which develops the highest usefulness and the 

 highest permanent profit from them both. 



One of the most gratifying features of the work of 

 the Bureau, full of promise for its further usefulness, 

 is, that in spite of the overwhelming demands upon it 

 and of the utter impossibility, with the men and the 

 money at its disposal, to meet all these demands, the 

 technical standard of its work has grown steadily 



