412 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Price. Yes, sir. Iam glad to say that our office expenses have 
decreased steadily. The office is costing proportionately less now than 
it did three years ago, and it is costing less each year. 
Mr. Scorr. Why is that so? 
Mr. Prics. Because our work is more and more in the field. 
Mr. Scotr. Will the difference in the working hours in the depart- 
ments make any difference in your office force and enable you to get 
along with fewer men? 
Mr. Pricr. No, sir; I think we are already as far along the line of 
economy as we can go with safety. We have a comparatively small 
office force at present, and with the exception of the necessary clerks 
and stenographers and of the computing clerks, who are working out 
the results of the data obtained in the field, we have no permanent 
office force. 
Mr. Scott. What have you published this year? 
Mr. Pricr. Two bulletins have already been published: One A 
Working Plan for Forest Lands in Hampton and Beaufort Counties, 
South Carolina; the other, The Diminished Flow of Rock River in 
Wisconsin and Illinois, and Its Relation to the Surrounding Forests. 
It is expected that 19 additional bulletins will be published or sub- 
mitted for publication before the end of the present fiscal year. (See 
list attached.) 
ALREADY PUBLISHED. 
A Working Plan for Forest Lands in Hampton and Beaufort Counties, South 
Carolina. . 
The Diminished Flow of Rock River in Wisconsin and Illinois, and Its Relation to 
the Surrounding Forests. 
TO BE PUBLISHED OR IN HANDS OF PRINTER BEFORE JUNE 30, 1904. 
The Planting of White Pine in New England. 
The Basket Willow. 
The Forests of Texas. 
The Red Fir. 
Adirondack Fires in 1903. 
The Forests of the Hawaiian Islands. 
Forest Planting in Western Kansas. 
Forest Planting in Oklahoma and Adjacent Regions. 
The Reproduction of White Pine on Farm Lands in New England. 
The Maple Sugar Industry. 
Factors Determining the Destruction of Coniferous Forests in the Northwest. 
Silvicultural Characterjstics of Long-Leaf Pine. 
The Relation of Forest Cover to Run-off in the San Bernardino Mountains. 
Studies of the Production of Tannin by Eastern Tan Barks. 
A Comparative Study of American and European Methods of Turpentine Orcharding. 
Timber for Telegraph and Telephone Poles. 
Report on the Condition of Treated Timbers Laid in Texas, February, 1902. 
Part II of A Primer of Forestry. 
Part II of The Woodsman’s Handbook. 
Mr. Brooks. Is there a demand for the Woodsman’s Handbook? 
Mr. Price. Yes, sir. 
Mr. Lams. They are asking me for it down my way all the time. 
Mr. Price. Yes, sir; it has been received in a very gratifying way. 
Mr. Scorr. In the matter of emergency you spoke of, I Fardly 
understand why it happens that unless you get this work done right 
away you will never be able to do it. 
Mr. Price. We will be able to do it, true enough, later on, but it 
seems to me that now is the time to do it, because if it is not done now, 
