CONTENTS. 



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Purpose and organization of the Branch of Forest Products 5 



Field of work 5 



Organization ^ 5 



Forest Products Laboratory 6 



National Forest utilization 7 



Industrial Investigations 9 



Stations 10 



Executive officers 10 



Correlation between different units 10 



District offices and Forest Products Laboratory 11 



District offices and Industrial Investigations 12 



Industrial Investigations and Forest Products Laboratory 13 



Apportionment of costs 13 



Routine procedure 14 



Administrative control 14 



Correspondence 15 



Requests for information 15 



General correspondence 15 



Laboratory correspondence 15 



Industrial Investigations correspondence 15 



Station correspondence 16 



Monthly reports 16 



Stations 16 



District offices 16 



Forest Products Laboratory 16 



Industrial Investigations 17 



Annual Reports 17 



Forest Products Laboratory 17 



District offices 17 



Files 17 



General classification 17 



Filing schemes '_ 18 



Matters of general routine 18 



Cooperation with companies, organizations and individuals outside of the 



Forest Service 18 



Policy 18 



Policy in cooperation 18 



Commercial application and demonstration of experimental data_ 18 



Remuneration 19 



Procedure in cooperation 19 



Cooperative agreements 19 



Policy 20 



Investigation of patented or proprietary articles 20 



Publication of data affecting commercial interests 21 



Confidential information 21 



Disposal of prints and designs 21 



Compilation of data from outside sources in Laboratory publications- 21 



Technical procedure 22 



Kinds of investigations 22 



Administrative investigations 22 



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