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On the post office directory at Asheville, North Carolina, along with the names, Organized Reserves, Prohibition Investigators, Geologic Survey, Pisgah National Forest and others, you will find the words, Appalachian Forest Experiment Station -- Room 223.

In Response to strong demand, estimates from the Forest Survey of 1932-1936 are presented in this report on forest acreage and timber volumes by county in the states of the lower South. Although these figures are old and are highly unreliable for individual counties, they are useful as source data in compiling information for groups of counties that differ from the units used in the Forest Survey.

Millions each year for fertilizers! That is the heavy expenditure by American farmers'to keep agricultural soils productive. Forests, no less than corn and cotton, must rob the soil of nutrient material for their nourishment, and this material must be replenished. The farmer can conform his bought-and-paid-for fertilizers to the needs of his particular crops; but with timber, soil maintenance brings up a special set of questions. Do cutting : systems and logging methods affect the ! soil? What is the effect of forest -fires on the soil? Will it pay to hold forest lands for timber crops,...

The increasing effectiveness of suppression practice is shown by the fact that in 1915 fire suppression cost one-third as much as in 1914, and damage to Government property was kept down to one-fourth the 1914 figure. The seasons were approximately equal in danger. Is further progress to be expected?

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of Agriculture, prepared in collaboration with the Department of the Interior, upon the forests, rivers, and mountains; of the Southern Appalachian region, and upon its agricultural situation as affected by them. The report of the Secretary presents the final results of an investigation authorized by the last Congress. Its conclusions point unmistakably, in the judgment of the Secretary and in my own, to the creation of a national forest reserve in certain parts of the Southern States. The facts...