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permission from the owner to remove them, unless a_ properly 
authorized State official shall give orders for the removal of such 
bushes. The foreman or other person in charge shall report the 
name of the owner, the number and condition of cultivated Ribes 
removed, and the number left. 
Great care must be taken by field men to be sure to get all of 
the main roots of each currant or gooseberry bush pulled. As an 
aid, tools will be provided, but they are intended to assist in loosen- 
ing the roots, and should not be used to cut them off. 
All Ribes on any control area, where eradication work is carried 
on, must be removed except as ordered by the supervisor. Whena 
road is a boundary of a control area, the Ribes are to be removed 
WASTE IN LUMBERING. 
A tier of logs that has lain-in the woods twenty-six years. It is inter- 
esting to compare the size of these logs with the average size of present day 
logs. As near as can be estimated this tier averaged about three logs to the 
thousand feet. One spruce in fair state of preservation measured seventeen 
inches at the top end and forty-one feet in length. This gives a contents 
scale of about six hundred feet, board measure. Photo by Maine Forestry Dept. 
on both sides of the highway, including both sides of the fence lines 
bordering the highway. 
6. The foreman of each crew will be required to fill out com- 
pletely (or as designated) the B. R. Form No. 1, and shall mail the 
same at the end of each working day to the central office in Boston, 
and to such other place or places as designated by the State Agent 
