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AMERICAN FORESTRY 





DOUGLAS FIR LOG, TEN FEET SIX INCHES INSIDE 

 BARK. LOGGED AT CAMP 5, TWIN FALLS LOGGING 

 CO., CLARK COUNTY, WASHINGTON. 



own tracts large enough to give their 

 mills a perpetual supply of logs. And 

 when that time comes, it will be the 

 forester working from the inside of the 

 actual operation who will know best 

 what may and may not be attempted. 



But it means work and more than 

 that drudgery, especially to a college 

 graduate whose pride is going to be 

 hurt more than once while he is doing 

 subordinate work, often under men 

 who. lacking education, affect to look 

 upon any one who has been a "college 

 boy" as no good when it comes to real 

 work. You will often find yourself re- 

 garded as a failure simply because you 



are working up in a big business ; and 

 that by men who have had some one to 

 pull and push a bit for them when they 

 started on their business career. I 

 thoroughly believe that this is one busi- 

 ness that has to be learned by actually 

 getting in and working at the various 

 subordinate jobs that go to make up 

 the whole of a really big business. Our 

 best loggers are men who have worked 

 since they were boys, and they will tell 

 you that they are always learning some 

 new wrinkle. I know from experience 

 that this is very true. No two logging 

 companies operate under the same prin- 

 ciples ; some have a good selling organ- 



