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AGRIC. DEPT. 



,ETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. 



U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS, 



Washington, D. C., September 1, 1909. 



SIR : I have the honor to transmit herewith a manuscript prepared 

 by the Forest Service for special distribution among teachers at the 

 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. In view of the large interests of 

 the Northwest and of the whole country in forest conservation and 

 in the methods of forest replacement, and the growing interest of 

 public-school teachers in these matters, it seems desirable to present 

 this tentative plan of elementary instruction in the subject to the 

 attention of teachers for the purpose of drawing out their criticisms 

 and suggestions with reference to it. With the understanding that 

 the results of such suggestions shall be embodied in more permanent 

 form in future bulletins by this Office, I therefore recommend the 

 immediate publication of this manuscript as a special circular of this 

 Office. 



Respectfully, A. C. TRUE, 



Director. 

 Hon. W. M. HAYS, 



Acting Secretary of Agriculture. 

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