THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



computes the enormous number of forest 

 measurements dealing with the stand and 

 the rate of growth of trees and forests that 

 are turned in by the parties engaged in 

 forest investigation in the field. Under the 

 Office of Forest Investigations, studies in 

 forest distribution and in the structure of 

 wood are carried on, and it includes the 

 Library of the Forest Service, by far the 

 most complete and effective forest library 

 in the United States. 



The fourth branch, that of Grazing, super- 

 vises the use of the National Forests for 

 pasture. Over the greater part of the West, 

 this was the first use to which the forests 

 were put, and an idea of its magnitude may 

 be gathered from the fact that every yeai* 

 the National Forests supply feed for about 

 a million and a half cattle and horses, and 

 more than fourteen million sheep. It is no 

 easy task to permit all this live stock to 

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