AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 89 
(3.) The general character of the land which should be classed as agri- 
, cultural. 
(4.) The need of retaining lands having agricultural or other non- 
forest value in order to preserve the integrity of the forest 
and make possible its practical administration, protection, 
and fullest use. 
(5.) Forest and agricultural history before and after withdrawal 
’ for forest purposes and any other facts bearing upon the 
character and value of the land. 
The report is accompanied by a diagram of the forest showing the area 
classified as non-agricultural and the area pending classification. 
The report is artistically typewritten in double columns on atlas-sized 
paper and is generally illustrated by photographs and is bound in heavy 
binders, followed by the map of the unit area. 
Possible agricultural lands are subjected to a following intensive examin- 
ation. The examiner is selected by the district forester and must be competent 
to direct and carry on the timber-cruising, surveying, and mapmaking 
necessary. 
He is required to make a “careful and detailed study of the forest and 
other non-agricultural value of the area, paying particular attention to the 
lands classed as agricultural by the expert and should submit the information 
thus gathered in the shape of a map on the scale of 20 chains to the inch, and 
a report with recommendation as to what portions of the area should be classed 
as chiefly valuable for agriculture. 
The standardised headings for the intensive report are— 
1. Value of the area for forest purposes. 
(a) Value as a source of timber supply, present and future. 
(6) Value as a source of water supply and need for watershed protec- 
tion. 
2. Need for retaining for forest purposes any of the land designated as 
agricultural by the Bureau of Soils, so as not to prevent the accomplishment 
of the purposes for which the forests were established. 
(a) To preserve the integrity of the forest unit. It must be recog- 
nised that the objects of the National Forests, viz., the 
production of timber and the regulation of stream flow by the 
protection of the watershed cover, cannot be accomplished 
if the forest is allowed to become so shredded by private 
holdings that it ceases to be a practicable unit for protection 
and administration. 
(5) For proper administration of the forest including areas needed 
for ranger stations, government pastures, lookout stations, &c. 
(c) For the proper protection and administration of recognised uses 
of the forest, including tracts needed for logging rights-of-way, 
log landings, public camping grounds, areas needed in the 
administration of grazing, fire protection, &c. 
(@) To prevent the listing of lands chiefly valuable for timber rather 
than agriculture. Agricultural land carrying a heavy stand 
of timber of such value that the timber speculator, in the 
place of the bond fide home builder, would seek to acquire 
title will be classified as chiefly valuable for forest purposes, 
and will not be opened to entry until-the timber has been 
removed. 
