HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 405 
of Forestry during the present year is its increased application to 
Government work. Within the past three years the amount of the 
bureau’s uppropriation spent in public work has risen from about 7 to 
30 per cent. The amount spent in work for private owners has de- 
creased from 21 to approximately 13 per cent. Not only is the Bureau 
spending a larger part of its appropriation on public work each year, 
nas public work is given its best men and first place throughout in its 
plans. 
_ The public work now in the hands of the Bureau comprises the mak- 
ing of practically all recommendations for new forest reserves and for 
changes in the boundaries of existing reserves. Since it took up this 
line of work the Bureau has examined 91 separate areas proposed as 
forest reserves and as additions to existing reserves, with a total area 
of approximately 45,000,000 acres. In addition to its studies of pro- 
posed reserves and of reserve boundaries, the Bureau makes recom- 
mendations for grazing regulations governing the forest reserves, 
makes detailed working plans for reserve management, and makes 
studies of Indian reservations, all vnder the request of the Secretary of 
the Interior. A large and increasing part of our appropriation is spent 
in this way. 
The cooperation of the Bureau with States is becoming an exceed- 
ingly important feature of its work. It is now cooperating with Cali- 
fornia in a study of State forest problems under an appropriation of 
$15,000 by the State. It is conducting in New Hampshire, under an 
appropriation of $5,000 by the State, a systematic study of the State 
forests. 
To sum up, the work of the Bureau now falls under three main 
heads: 
1. Work upon Government lands and in State cooperation. 
2. Studies of independent forest problems whose scope renders it 
impossible that they be taken up by the private owner but whose 
solution is of urgent importance to the private owner and to the 
public owner as well. Among these are studies of tupentine orchard- 
ing, timber tests, studies of forest fires with a view to their prevention 
and control, studies of the uses, possibilities, and best management 
for commercial trees, and, among the most important, studies in wood 
preservation. In the latter line of work, the Bureau is cooperating 
with several of the great railroads to find the best methods for the 
preservation of railroad ties. 
3. The preparation of working plans and of planting plans in cooper- 
ation with the private owner. I want to make it very clear here that 
the Bureau is not competing with the private forester in this work, 
because the private forester does not yet exist. As soon as he appears 
the Bureau will step out of his way. Nor is the Bureau making the 
entirely futile attempt to handle all the private work in the United 
States, but merely to institute upon carefully selected tracts, charac- 
teristic of wide areas, the successful application of practical forestry. 
The results of the work of the Bureau in cooperation with private 
owners upon their lands is shown more than in any other way in the 
strong and growing influence which forestry has upon the lumber 
industry to-day. At the last convention of the National Lumber 
Manufacturers’ Association, held in Washington, more attention was 
given to forestry than to any other subject. ‘he convention expressed 
itself in favor of the perpetuation of the forest by wise use, and gave 
evidence of its good will by visiting the Bureau of Forestry in a body. 
