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the life of the operation, but also bring logs to the 

 mill at a less cost per cord. Real cost systems have 

 been little applied to woods operations, but some 

 forest engineers hope to demonstrate that this 

 study will prove quite as valuable to a large scale 

 logging operation as to a cash register or automo- 

 bile manufacturer. 



While old school logging bosses used to laugh at 

 forestry ideas, it is now the Forestry Department, 

 made up of a personnel of forest engineers, which 

 tends to become the planning and control depart- 

 ment of the woods operations. At the beginning of 

 the season a conference of officials is held, and the 

 chief forester is informed how many cords of wood 

 will be required for the coming year and what 

 species may be used. With the aid of complete 

 surveys, some of them made perhaps with the aid 

 of aerial photography, the forestry department 

 then selects the areas to be cut, locates the camp 

 sites and sends experienced men to blaze out the 

 necessary roads. Then, after the cutting begins, a 

 regular inspection is carried on to see that company 

 camps and contractors alike abide by the directions 

 given. Progress reports, hitherto almost unknown 

 in the logging industry, keep the mill management 

 informed as to the expectancy of raw material, 

 while a separate branch of the department carries 



