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3. Reports on log and lumber measures, with recommendations for 

 standard scales. 



4. Forest engineering. 



The report for this year is confined mainly to the second topic listed. An 

 appendix is submitted in the form of an excellent preliminary report on "Efficiency 

 in the Logging Industry in the Pacific Northwest," by C. S. Martin. 



This is a committee representing particularly the manufacturing end of 

 the lumber business, and since many widely divei sified problems are involved the 

 chairman calls attention to the fact that a complete report could not be prepared 

 in one season. Although the committee was composed largely of lumbermen 

 and dealt exclusively with lumbering questions, little co-operation or assistance 

 was received from those who should be most interested. Apropos of this situa- 

 tion is Dr. C. A. Schenk's truism that "the new turn in lumbering methods cannot 

 be brought about from the outside. It will be necessary for the rejuvenation 

 of lumbering, for the forester to become full fledged lumbermen." If outside help 

 will not be accepted, and less than 5 per cent of the insiders in the lumbering 

 business who were asked for information show any interest, how can anything 

 be worked out? After all, the theorist, considered as ''a man who tries to think 

 what he is doing" is usually the one who worked out the reforms ultimately 

 welcomed by the "practical" man who is too busy to help. 



There is a very large field for profitable investigations under the several 

 topics named, but to carry on the work satisfactorily the co-operation and assist- 

 ance of the lumbermen is a first essential. Moreover, funds should be available 

 for the employment of a competent field man to study and compare conditions 

 and methods and personally obtain information from operators. The various 

 phases of forest utilization could properly be handled under the same subject 

 heading. 



Committee 7. 



FOREST PLANTING 



Chairman, E. H. Clapp Forest Service, Washington, D. C. 



Acting Chm'n,S. N. Spring Professor, Forestry Department, Cornell 



University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



T. T. Munger Forest Service, Portland, Ore. 



S. B. Detwiler Superintendent, Chestnut Blight Commis- 

 sion, Philadelphia, Pa. 



TOPICS ASSIGNED 



1. Conditions under which commercial planting is desirable. 



2. Nursery methods. 



3. Field planting methods. 



4. Natural versus artificial regeneration. 



While a large amount of forest planting has been done, much of it might be 

 classified as sporadic or experimental. In most planting operations too little atten- 

 tion has been paid to the purely commercial aspects of the question. 



The sub-committee's report deals entirely with the commercial conditions 



