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individuals and the enterprise merely calls for timely advertisement, 

 instruction, arrangement for receiving and storing and after that, 

 of extracting the seed, cleaning and suitable disposition, shipment, 

 and storage. 



7. Detail Plans of Surveys, and Special Studies. 



On any large forest property, if no more than 10,000 acres, the 

 task of examining lands, estimating and describing stands, studying 

 gowth and habits of the timber on the land, establishing and clearly 

 marking the boundaries of the property, and its divisions is usually 

 the work of a number of years. Much of this work can be planned 

 to come when other work is not pressing and in any case it is desir- 

 able that much or all of it be done by the forester in charge, since 

 there is no way in which he gains the necessary familiarity with all 

 parts of his forest in a shorter time or better way. For some years 

 on all forests and for large properties always, there is an annual 

 task in survey work. On large properties this work deserves a 

 place in the general plans, setting forth at what rate the forest 

 should be covered and methods to be used. The detail plan, usually 

 a yearly plan, enumerates the various projects, areas to be estimated 

 and described, lines to be run or re-run, cleared and monumented, 

 and detail studies for volume- and yield-tables to be made during 

 the year. This is put in a tabular form with estimates of cost and 

 a right hand spjace for record of work actually performed, results 

 including expenses incurred. A map showing the progress of this 

 work forms an important part of this plan. 



8. Plans for Experimental Work. 



On very large properties the owners will often find it to their 

 advantage to allow a reasonable sum to carry on work of an experi- 

 mental order, rather than to trust altogether to information gathered 

 elsewhere. In state and national forests the reason for such work 

 is evident, and here it receives deserved attention. But there is 

 nothing which needs careful planning, definite control and regular 

 report of results more than experimental work. Plans for such 

 tasks are detailed and special, they develop with demand for the 

 information. The experiments now under way on the National 



