INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO FOREST PRODUCTS. 17 



INDUSTRIAL INVESTIGATIONS. 



The chief of Industrial Investigations will submit to the assistant 

 forester in charge of the Branch not later than the 5th of each month 

 a report on the work of the previous month. This report will include 

 a statement of progress on all projects and such general comments 

 and recommendations as are necessary. Copies will be sent to the 

 Forest Products Laboratory and to each district office. 



ANNUAL REPORTS. 

 FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY. 



An annual report will be submitted to the assistant forester by the 

 director of the Forest Products Laboratory not later than July 15 

 of each year. This report will review the work of the Laboratory 

 during the past fiscal year, discussing particularly broad questions 

 of organization, policy and lines of work rather than detailed inves- 



tigations. 



DISTRICT OFFICES. 



The work in Forest Products will be discussed in the nonstatistical 

 annual report of each district forester. Copies of such reports will 

 be sent to the Forest Products Laboratory. 



FILES. 

 ( F N F.RAL CLASSIFICATION. 



The files of the Branch will contain records of four general classes: 

 Test records. 



(1) Test records, including all experimental data not yet analyzed 

 or put in final form. Such records will be filed at the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory in the section of computing. They will be classified 

 by shipment and filed by project number as far as possible. 



Project records. 



(2) Reports, papers and correspondence relating to specific proj- 

 ects. This class includes all project records not coming under Class 

 1. namely : Preliminary reports, cooperative agreements, working 

 plans, progress reports, inspection reports and project reports, to- 

 gether with all correspondence related to them. Such records will be 

 classified by projects and filed by project numbers. Shipment de- 

 scriptions will be filed serially by shipment numbers. 



Classified information. 



(3) Information not secured in connection with a project. This 

 includes all data not contained in Classes 1 and 2 and which can not 

 be classified by project; information not forming an essential part 

 of the project records; and information secured in project investiga- 

 tions. classified by subjects. This file should include a duplicate 

 copy of final project reports and a classified index to the project file. 



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