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He spoke of the rapid growth of commercial forestry in this country as evidenced by the demand for and employment of graduate foresters. He says that there are now thirty-four institutions of learning in the United States that teach forestry, that these schools are turning out about 750 foresters annually, and that there is a constant demand for all of them. The demand, he said will increase steadily as forestry becomes ever more important, and the supply of foresters will be increased to meet the need. There are more than 13,000 professional foresters in this country today.

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It was a comparatively few years back when there were very few educated foresters in this country outside of the state and federal governments. Today there are foresters wherever there are forests, professional experts in the art of growing commercial trees. :8*{<

He spoke with enthusiasm of that remarkable new source of wood conservation, the chipping machine, which takes edgings, trimmings, and other clean waste from the sawmill and chips it up into valuable pulpwood material. He says that in the Douglas Fir area alone there are already more than two hundred of these machines. To go to the chipper wood must be without bark, since bark is undesirable in paper making, so the removal of bark from the logs has become a major sawmill industry in itself. According to Col. Greeley these chippers are already transforming into fine pulp material enormous quantities of mill waste that would otherwise be going to the burner, thus making what has always been mill waste into valuable assets. He says that a number of commercial chipping machines are already in operation in di,fferent parts of the country, where clean waste wood may be brought in, and taken away in the form of pulp chips. More chipping machines will be seen throughout the mill industry, says the Colonel.

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And before he had finished talking, Col. Greeley had told again a true story on himself that he has made famous by re-telling on frequent occasions. When he was a youngster, working in a national forest, he got into the habit of claiming that forest for his own, thoughtlessly of course. He got in the habit of referring to the forest as "my forest." He did that one day while talking to an oldster, and final\r the man said to Greeley: ***

"When you speak of your forest, you remind me of a Bible story. It seems that the Devil took the Master to the top of a high mountain, showed Him the world, and promised to give it to Him if He would bow down and adore him. And you know," said the older man, "the sorry rascal never owned a foot of it." The Colonel says that never from that time on did he claim a forest as his own.