BUREAU OF FORESTRY. 



Planting pimis. 



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The Bui'eau does not furnish seeds or trees for cooperative planting. 

 It participates in the expenses of planting only to the extent of defray- 

 ing the salaries and, in certain cases, expenses for travel and sub- 

 sistence of its agents while making the planting plan. Nor does it 

 undertake to make either planting or working plans for all applicants. 



Preference in time of examination is given to those applications 

 which are likely to afford the most useful object lessons. When an 

 application has been made and accepted, an examination of the land 

 which it is proposed to plant is made b_y an agent of the Bureau. 

 Upon small areas where prolonged study or the services of assistants 

 are not required, a planting plan, if planting is recommended, is pre- 

 pai"ed by the agent before leaving the ground. In all cases the con- 

 clusion.s of the examination as to the advisability of planting are 

 embodied in a report to the owner. If the preparation of a planting 

 plan is recommended and the recommendation accepted, a thorough 

 study is made on the ground and a detailed and comprehensive plan 

 prepared, a copy of which, with all essential measurements, maps, and 

 other data, is sent to the owner upon completion. 



In July, 1903, reports from 118 persons for whom planting plans, 

 covering" 3,704 acres, had been made showed that 21 per cent of the 

 area had been planted, and that on 2,352 acres more, or 63 per cent, 

 the plans are considered valid. Plans for an aggregate of 550 acres 



