414 HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE. 
Mr. Price. Yes, sir; that difficulty is largely disappearing. The Yale 
Forest School, for example, has a graduating class of 30 men. The 
University of Michigan will turn out several more. A forest school 
is beginning at Harvard also. 
Mr. Scott. How much training do you have to give these men after 
they graduate from the university schools before you send them into 
the field ? 
Mr. Price. In many cases we have had a chance to judge of these 
men by their employment as student assistants. As a matter of fact, 
very few men come to us on whom we have not already got a very 
good line in this way. 
Mr. Scorr. What do you have to pay these men? 
Mr. Pricz. The examination for field assistant is an exceedingly 
rigid one. Those who pass it get $1,000 a year and expenses. 
Mr. Brooxs. What do the student assistants get? 
Mr. Pricr. $25 a month and expenses. 
Mr. Bowrr. What do the expenses amount to—more or less than 
their salaries? : 
Mr. Pricr. That varies a good deal. The expenses of a party in 
permanent camp average per month about $10 a man, while on the 
reserve boundary work, where a man often requires a pack train of 
four or five animals, and a packer, it will run up as high as $10 a day, 
and averages not Jess than $5 or $6 a day. 
Mr. Scorr. Your appropriation has been increasing at about the 
rate of $100,000 a year? 
Mr. Pricr. I realize that. 
Mr. Bowie. What was the increase in appropriation last year? 
Mr. Priczr. From $291,000 to $350,000. 
Mr. Scort. 1 think the committee will be interested in knowing, if- 
you can state in regard to that, how many years you will continue to 
go on increasing and come in with a request for a $100,000 increase? 
Mr. Price. It certainly will not go on much longer at the present 
rate. But the fact that impresses us most strongly in the Bureau at 
present is that we have never had the resources to satisfy the urgent 
requests for assistance which we receive. 
The Coarrman. Where do they come from? 
Me Price. From the Government, more and more, and from the 
eople. 
: Mr. Bowiz. What do you mean by the demands coming from the 
Government? 
Mr. Price. I mean the demand for examination of reserve bound- 
aries, all of which we are making. 
Mr. Bowrs. For reserve boundaries? 
Mr. Price. Yes sir. 
Mr. Bowrs. On the Government lands out in the West? 
Mr. Price. The examination of areas proposed as forest reserves, 
or the examination of existing forest reserves upon which there has 
arisen the question of change of boundaries, work upon which we 
employed thirty men this last summer. 
Mr. Bowi. Is that surveying work? 
Mr. Pricr. It is in no sense surveying work. They make no sur- 
veys. They go over public lands in order to determine which are 
suitable for forest reserves. They consider the value of the lands in 
regulating stream flow, for grazing and for other uses; and they rec- 
