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ization and fall down on the actual log- 

 ging; others have a splendid railroad 

 system and do not seem to get the logs ; 

 one man is logging small timber, an- 

 other large timber, one in ragged coun- 

 try, another on comparatively level 

 land. Everywhere you turn there is 

 something different and there is no 

 business in the world where the indi- 

 vidual efforts of the superintendent or 

 manager count for more in the general 

 result attained. 



There will be many times when you 

 will ask yourself whether or not you 

 have made a mistake after all in taking 

 up private rather than Government or 

 State work. You see your classmates 

 going ahead more rapidly at the start 

 than you can hope to do. They re- 

 ceive more money to start with and are 

 promoted more rapidly the first year or 

 so ; and here is the biggest question of 

 all ; they are doing more technical work, 

 are using their education, while you are 

 way back in the primary grade again 

 learning your "A, B, C's" of the busi- 

 ness. This is the hardest rub of all 

 and I believe it influences more men to 

 go into the Government service than 

 any other one thing. But just wait a 



little longer and I'll tell you about the 

 rewards, as I begin to see them. When- 

 ever I began to get discouraged during 

 the first few years I used to remember 

 the words of a man who had done both 

 private and government work, and who 

 knew what he was talking about. He 

 said, "Ten years may seem a long time 

 to a young fellow, but to a big corpora- 

 tion, training men for the work of a life 

 time, it is but a short and necessary 

 period of preparation." Now I do not 

 expect to have to put in ten years of 

 drudgery. I can begin to see the end of 

 it now. Why? Simply because I am 

 getting to know the business from the 

 ground up and I know that I know it. 

 This knowledge is going to be capital- 

 ized before long and it is worth just 

 what I have spent on it. And mean- 

 while, I have made a living for 

 myself and family ; not much, but 

 enough. I have good friends and 

 the respect of those with whom 

 I am thrown in contact. And I 

 would not trade my chances for the 

 future with any one of those who en- 

 tered the business handicap at the same 

 time and with the same equipment I 

 had. 



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BOUT four weeks, starting May 

 13, is being devoted by Pennsyl- 

 vania to demonstrating methods 

 for the control of the codling moth, 

 cucurlio and other insect pests which 

 have started to get busy on the fruit 

 trees which are in blossom. 



Dr. H. A. Surface, the State's zo- 

 ologist, says that the demonstrations 

 will be held in twenty counties the first 

 week and in thirty-five counties the sec- 

 ond, the northern counties being in the 

 third week, as the time to demonstrate 

 the methods for control of the pests is 

 just after the petals of the blossoms 

 fall. 



"Several meetings are to be held in 



each county," says the zoologist. 

 "This is so that everyone will get a 

 chance to see the demonstrations which 

 will be in charge of our best men. This 

 is the time to get after the codling 

 moth, the chewing insects and pests 

 which are now infesting trees in some 

 parts of the State or are likely to de- 

 velop. Pennsylvania has advanced the 

 value of its fruit crop wonderfully by 

 using scientific methods in the com- 

 batting tree pests, and it is believed 

 that as soon as fruit tree owners realize 

 the possibility of reducing the number 

 of culls or unsound fruit from ten per 

 cent to two per cent. I think there 

 will be still greater gains." 



