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nighing advice concerning the best methods of 

 managing and protecting their timber holdings. 

 Our National Forests number something over 

 162,000,000 acres, and the industry of forestry 

 has grown to such proportions that it is second 

 to that of agriculture in the number of people 

 and amount of capital employed and in the value' 

 of product. However, it is not always possible 

 for a man who has passed the Forest Service ex- 

 amiaation to get employment under the govern- 

 ment. But the need of trained foresters is 

 steadily rising. They are wanted by railroad 

 companies, lumbering companies, manufactur- 

 ing concerns of one sort and another, holders 

 of large estates, and so on. Foresters, like 

 farmers, are born, not made, and there must al- 

 ways be room for the young man who goes into 

 the work for the love of it and who is determined 

 to win. Forestry also offers many opportuni- 

 ties to girls and women, in the laboratories, at 

 the field and experiment stations, in the quaran- 

 tine and plant propagation departments, in the 

 work of foreign seed and plant introduction, as 

 landscape gardeners, as experts in the problems 

 of forest management, and the like. The indus- 

 try of forestry and the work of the forester are 

 so new and untried that they must be tinged 



