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of their shade trees and roadsides. They have not the time nor 

 the money to continually take care of the wild woodland. For 

 owners who are willing to furnish the capital, the policy of this 

 department has been to take complete management of the work, 

 cutting the trees necessary to the best possible advantage, and 

 selling the product afterwards. For other owners we have found 

 buyers for the wood which we wanted cut, or have given advice 

 and marked trees, etc., and left them to manage the cutting 

 themselves. Many others have followed the example of the 

 owners whom we have helped, and have done the thinning of 

 their own accord. 



The attempt in this work has been to put it on a firm 

 business basis. The areas of large growth that have been cut 

 have been lumbered according to the most modern methods, 

 as would be done by any large lumber company. The smaller 

 growth has been cut by the cord at the market price. Except 

 where beauty or moth spread were factors, the owners have not 

 been urged to carry on this work unless they could see before 

 they started that it would at least pay for itself. The subject 

 of utilization has been gone into most thoroughly. All the 

 large wood dealers and brick yards have been called on, with 

 the aim of persuading them to buy the wood which we have 

 and will cut. New methods of utilization, such as chemical wood, 

 charcoal, etc., have been studied. All the industries and 

 dealers who use and buy oak lumber or logs have been written 

 to, and many of them visited, in an attempt to find out what 

 they want, so that the owners who cut may sell their product 

 to them to the best advantage. In short, this office has been 

 made a sort of clearing house for oak products, where the buyer 

 and seller may meet. 



As in the year previous, an attempt was made to get a com- 

 plete list of all owners of infested woodland in the State. Many 

 of these owners have since been written to and visited in an 

 attempt to persuade them to practice forestry methods on their 

 lands. Maps have been kept showing the infested areas, and 

 also all lands examined. A card index of all owners to whom 

 advice is given is also kept describing their peculiar conditions, 

 and the attempt will be made to follow them up in future years; 

 also an index of all oak buvers is maintained. 



