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c. The forester makes a yearly report which he submits to 

 head office together with his yearly or detail plans. This report 

 pives the yearly totals as gleaned from the records, i. e., totals by 

 the different lines of work, and grand total of expenses and income. 

 It also recites all important experience and observation of the year, 

 which has bearing on his work, and particularly on the plans he 

 submits. 



d. The owner or his representative, on large properties (state, 

 national, etc.) a special inspector should regularly visit the forester, 

 examine his records and at least a few important points in his woods. 

 If he is a regular inspector he should keep in mind that his business 

 is not to find fault, but to help to promote confidence, and harmony, 

 to keep the work at highest cfliciency and assure the forest owner 

 greatest possible success. If then he finds that a forester is unable 

 (or unwilling) to do his task, he should report facts, important, 

 provable facts and not merely opinions prompted by prejudice either 

 favorable or otherwise. 



To leave a forester without this inspection, without visit from, 

 and personal contact with the owner or his representative, is never 

 safe and is not even fair to an employee working under the condi- 

 tions under which all foresters must work. In this connection it 

 may be well to state that the usual effort of control by "red tape", 

 as it is commonly invented by the book-keeping division of large 

 enterprises, is never really a control, it is mere hindrance. There 

 is nothing so conducive and nothing so protective to the development 

 of bad and even crooked work as is an over abundance of red tape. 

 The exposure of years of fraudulent conduct in some of our banks 

 and railway systems, the most generous concerns in this line of 

 would-be control, are ample proof. 



The forester is a busy man ; he is, or should be out in the 

 weather most of his time and it is wise to keep all matters of book- 

 keeping and reports and correspondence in the simplest, most 

 serviceable form. 



2. Revision. As stated repeatedly, the conditions on a forest 

 property are extremely complex, they are constantly changing, not 

 a month, or even a week passes on a large property but what some 

 trees are destroyed, others injured, often thousands of feet of tim- 

 ber falling in a single storm. A heavy snow, or an ice storm breaks 



