AN AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF AMERICAN FORESTRY. 12 
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The “ National Forest Manual ” affirmed that: 
“Forest investigations of systematic character, and conducted 
with scientific accuracy, form an important part of the work of the 
Forest Service, both as a means of building up the science of forestry 
in the United States of America, and of assisting and improving the 
administration of the national forests.” 
Every member of the Forest Service was expected to co-operate in the 
common task of forest study, and all opportunity and encouragement were 
afforded officers to carry out investigations side by side with their ordinary 
routine duties. 
The investigations were to cover every branch of forestry, “ especially 
silviculture, including reafforestation, tree and shrub distribution, volume and 
yield measurements, forest influences, protection from fire, insects and disease, 
lumbering methods and costs, stumpage appraisals, dendrology, grazing, and 
utilisation of forest products.” 
The attached list is a compilation of the studies now being carried out 
by the United States of America Forest Service. It is of interest because of 
the fact that almost precisely the same range of research must inevitably be 
undertaken by Australian Depaitments of Forestry, as a basis for their 
scientific development. 
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOREST STUDIES—A COMPILATION. 
Forest UTILIsaTION. 
1. Studies of existing industries, covering methods and costs of manu- 
facture; grading rules; collection of market prices; mill-scale studies to 
determine grades and over-run; investigation of kiln-drying methods. 
2. Market prejudices against particular species or classes of material and 
means of overcoming them through special studies or publicity. 
3. General questions of timber supply and demand, markets, and freight 
ratés; stumpage appraisals and royalties. 
4, Advice and assistance in the construction of State forest improvements, 
particularly in the use of wood preservatives. 
5. Advice and assistance to persons in the respective districts, outside 
of the Forest Service, or any of the foregoing or related questions. 
6. Preparation of publications on any subjects covered by the foregoing 
investigations which have marked practical or scientific value. 
7. Demonstration of methods or processes developed by the Forest Service 
for the benefit of local industries. 
INDUSTRIAL. 
8. Collection and compilation of statistics on the production and con- 
sumption of forest products, prevailing market and stumpage prices, imports 
and exports, and transportation rates. 
9. Compilation and study of specifications of rough and manufactured 
forest products. 
10. Studies of timber manufacture and wood-using industries as to 
methods, forms of material, waste, costs, equipment, substitution of one 
species for another, and improvements through more conservative use of raw 
material. 
11. Advice and assistance through co-operative agreements and otherwise 
to other departments, industries, and individuals concerned with such lines of 
work. 
