THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



modern business. There are very few 

 Government bureaus of which this can be 

 said. 



The Branch of Operation is responsible 

 for the adoption and enforcement of labor- 

 saving devices in correspondence, in handling 

 requisitions, and in the filing and care of 

 papers generally, and for the supply of 

 stationery, tools, and instrimients, and the 

 renting of quarters, — ^in a word, for the 

 whole of the more or less routine transaction 

 of business which is essential to keep so large 

 an organization at the highest point of 

 efficiency. It also has charge of accounts, 

 whose value I need not describe further than 

 to say that the Service has always owed a 

 very large part of its safety against the bitter 

 attacks of its enemies to the accuracy, com- 

 pleteness, and general high quality of its 

 accounting system. 



The office work needed in the mapping of 



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