THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



of the Forest Service. Here the business 

 methods which are necessary to keep the 

 organization at a high state of efficiency are 

 formulated, put in practice, and constantly 

 revised, for it is only by such revision that 

 they can be kept, as they are kept, at a 

 level with the very best practice of the best 

 modern business. There are very few 

 Government bureaus of which this can be 

 said. The Branch of Operation is respon- 

 sible for the adoption and enforcement of 

 labor-saving devices in correspondence, in 

 handling requisitions, and in the filing and 

 care of papers generally, and for the supply 

 of stationery, tools, and instruments, and 

 the renting of quarters, — in a word, for the 

 whole of the more or less routine transaction 

 of business which is essential to keep so large 

 an organization at the highest point of 

 efficiency. 



The office work needed in the mapping of 



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