timber and out put of forest products for each of the forty eastern coun- 

 ties and a study of mesquite in twelve southwestern counties. 



The newspapers and the Clumber and farm journals have been most 

 friendly in offering the use of their pages for the publication of forestry 

 matters. The Forestry Department has hardly begun as yet to take full 

 advantage of this oportunity owing to the pressure of other work. As 

 time goes on, it is the aim to use the newspapers and journals far more 

 freely in order to extend a knowledge of forestry among the people of 

 Texas. 



The State Forester has been called upon for numerous addresses be- 

 fore conventions and meetings of lumbermen, farmers and stock raisers, 

 county and city organizations, Women's Clubs* and Teacher's Institutes. 

 More than 25 lectures on Forestry have been delivered during the year. 



The preparation of exhibits for fairs offers an important means of 

 reaching the public in an educational way. Material suitable for exhibits 

 cannot be accumulated in a short space of time since specimens must be 

 collected from all .parts of the State, photographs and models made, sam- 

 ples of products of various wood using industries assembled and data com- 

 piled for use in diagrams and charts. The State Forester was able, 

 however, to prepare an exhibit occupying nearly 1500 square feet of space 

 for the State Fair at Dallas during the present fall. The cost of shipment, 

 installation and supervision of a large exhibit makes it impossible to present 

 an exhibit at various fairs until a larger appropriation is secured. In a 

 number of States, the State Forestry Departments have small buildings 

 usually constructed of logs, located permanently on their State Fair grounds 

 where forestry exhibits may be shown from year to year. This suggestion 

 is one which the State Forester hopes to see carried out in Texas. 



During the year the State Forester has written approximately 1500 

 letters in answer to inquiries and in connection with the business of the 

 Department, not counting administrative letters or circular letters which 

 have from time to time been addressed to county officials, demonstration 

 agents and others in securing information concerning 'State conditions. 

 During the first half of the fiscal year a stenographer was employed to 

 handle the clerical work but during the latter half a trained Forestry As- 

 sistant was secured who has been able to do the stenographic work and 

 devote the balance of his time to technical lines. The increasing amount 

 of letter writing and clerical work will soon necessitate the employment 

 of a stenographer under full time and permit the assistant to work solely 

 along investigative lines and in teaching. 



Forestry Investigations Under the State Experiment Station. 



The State Forester is in charge of a Division of Forestry of the Texas 

 Experiment Station. The work carried on under this Division is of course 

 entirely experimental. On October 1, 1915, the Director of the Station 

 approved a project entitled "Introduction and Propagation of Forest and 

 Shade Trees in Different Regions of Texas." The object of this study 

 is to determine which native American and foreign trees are most suitable 



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