THE FOREST RANGER 



The forest ranger likes his job: he has no time to kn >ck 



And when at length promotion comes it strikes him with a shock. 



Thus the ranger's life is lived with nature wild and free 

 His soul uncaged by city walls-His is the life for me. 



Berlin, Wash,, Oct. 27, 1911. 



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A RANGER PILING AND BURNING BRUSH IX THE WINTER. 



THE FUTURE [SUPPLY OF HICKORY 



America must soon begin to plant lu\ >itnlry will face a serious shortage 



in one of its most useful hard woods, according Zon, expert in charge of f/ui 



office of silvics in the United States M vice. 



America is now supplying t/ie hickor\ wliiclr is u er the entire world. Arfact not 



known to the average person is that hickor\ is distinctively an American tree, growing only 

 in the eastern part of the United States. It i 



and up until the present 'time sufficient quo liai'c been found lo supply the demand at 



reasonable prices, but experts in the Forest Service now realise tluit the 



timber must be planted if the future supply is to be guaranteed. 



