32 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS. 



cooperation with Berea College, Kentucky, the Xew York Forest, 

 Fish, and Game Commission, the University of Michigan, the Michi- 

 gan Forestry Association, the Iowa State Agricultural College, the 

 University of Nebraska, the North Dakota Agricultural College, and 

 the Mississippi Agricultural College. 



PLA^'TING LEAFLETS AND ADDRESSES. 



The planting leaflets for use in correspondence now number 36 for 

 single species and 12 on general subjects, such as how to transplant 

 forest trees, fence-post timbers, etc. The mimeographed sheets giving 

 lists of dealers and range of prices for plant material, whicfi are used 

 as supplements to the leaflets, were brought up to date. The total 

 number now available is 41. 



Information on farm forestry was disseminated in the West by 

 means of farmers' institute lectures. A Forest Service representative 

 accompanied institute parties on extensive trips thru eastern and 

 western Colorado and parts of Nebraska. Lectures Avere also deliv- 

 ered before various farmers' meetings in Iowa, Texas, and Missis- 

 sippi. Addresses on special forest topics were given at public meet- 

 ings in Illinois, North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Vermont, 

 Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and California. At the Iowa State 

 Agricultural College, the University of Nebraska, and the Mississippi 

 Agricultural College, technical Service men are furloughed during 

 the winter to give instruction in forestry. 



WORK rOE THE ENSUING YEAR. 

 COOPERATIVE PLANTING. 



The preparation of planting plans will be continued under a some- 

 what revised plan. Small landowners, public and educational insti- 

 tutions, and branches of the Federal Government will be given 

 gratuitous or cooperative aid as in the past. Corporations and large 

 landowners, however, will be called upon to pay all the expenses, 

 unless the work is of high educational value. It will be the aim to 

 get in closer touch with the farm thru farmers' associations and 

 farmers' institutes. Special investigations will be limited to fields 

 where immediate practical results will accrue. The most important 

 v\'ork of this kind under way is a forest-planting reconnaissance in 

 reclamation projects. Other important tasks are the improvement of 

 city watersheds in the East and an investigation of artificial methods 

 of timber propagation in the South. 



Experimental planting will be continued in cooperation with State 

 forest commissions and colleges, and begun on the areas withdrawn 

 for this purpose within reclamation projects. 



RESERVE PLANTING. 



The present reserve planting stations will be made more permanent 

 by the erection of suitable station houses, and the productive capacity 

 of the nurseries will be increased where advisable. New stations will 

 be established as required, and small nurseries under the charge of 

 the reserve officers will be started wherever plant material is needed 

 for local use. The investigation of city watersheds within forest 



