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"But it is being done!" cried Bob. "There is no difficulty in doing it."
"That's for you to prove, if you want to," said Orde. "If you care to
resign from the Service, we will for two years give you full swing with
our timber, to cut and log according to your ideas--or rather the ideas
of those over you. In that time you can prove your point, or fail.
Personally," he repeated, "I have grave doubts as to whether it can be
done at present; it will be in the future of course."
"Why, what do you mean?" asked Bob. "It is being done every day! There's
nothing complicated about it. It's just a question of cutting and piling
the tops, and--"
"I know the methods advocated," broke in Orde. "But it is not being done
except on Government holdings where conditions as to taxation, situation
and a hundred other things are not like those of private holdings; or on
private holdings on an experimental scale, or in conjunction with older
methods. The case has not been proved on a large private tract. Now is
your chance so to prove it."
Bob's face was grave.
"That means a pretty complete about-face for me, sir," said he.
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