Excerpt from Lantern Slides and Film Strips of the United States Department of Agriculture Periods of loan should be no longer than necessary. When a series Of slides is requested by a State director of extension for the exclusive use of an individual county extension agent, the loan period will ordinarily be limited to 1 month, and the slides will be sent direct to the individual for whose use they are re quested. However, when a definite plan of use is provided by the State exten' sion service borrowing the slides and {schedule is submitted showing their routing around the State, they may be kept for a period of 3 months. Any extension of the loan period must be specially arranged in advance. At the expiration of the loan period, slides must be returned promptly and in good condition by prepaid express or parcel post. A report giving the number of meetings at which the slides were used and the approximate attendance at such meetings should be submitted when the slides are returned. The Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture has a collection of 15 sets of colored lantern slides prepared for use with lecture outlines, which it distributes independently of the Division of Cooperative Extension. In addition, the Forest Service has a large collection of miscellaneous slides from which it lends material on forest management, lumbering, reproduction, re, forestation, forest types, wood utilization, forest fires, diseases and injuries, erosion and stream flow, grazing, game on the national forests, and other related subjects. Application for these slides should be made direct to the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. A list of special sets of slides available will be found on page 18. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.