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vision of this office. Under this plan, several private owners 

 are this winter carrying on regular thinning improvement cut- 

 ting, fire-line making and other forestry operations, under the 

 more or less regular instruction and general supervision of a 

 forestry assistant. 



In one instance, that of the Burbank Hospital, treated more 

 fully elsewhere, a regular lumbering operation was completed. 



In any case the plan is doubly advantageous, both to the 

 owner and the office, in that it is made possible for such owners 

 to employ the same men used by the reforestation department in 

 its spring planting, thus getting the profit of experienced labor 

 at the same price that would have to be paid for inferior work- 

 men ; while at the same time the office is pleased to offer its men 

 continuous employment, instead of losing all trace of them im- 

 mediately at the close of the planting season. The owner, of 

 course, pays all cost of the work, including travelling expenses 

 of the expert from this office, the assistance only being given 

 free. 



In addition to the advantages already indicated, there is the 

 far-reaching one of having within the State an ever-increasing 

 number of men, and more particularly of competent bosses, who 

 understand not only woods work but woods work along practical 

 forestry lines ; this body of men to act as a nucleus around which 

 to build up an effective force for carrying out the many and 

 increasingly difficult forestry problems which are pressing for 

 immediate solution. 



Owners and towns where the work described above either is or 

 soon will be under way are as follows : — 



R. B. Symmington, Plymouth, has thinned about 50 acres. 



Francis C. Green, Buzzard's Bay, will make fire lines, thin and pos- 

 sibly plant. 



Frederick W. Burnham, Buckland, is clear-cutting and thinning about 

 50 acres ; will later turn over to State to plant. 



I. P. Lawrence, Ashburnham, is planting 25 acres and may do some 

 thinning. 



It is hoped that in future we may be able to report a still 

 further increase in this work, and one in keeping with its 

 importance. 



