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Show WOOD PULP SCARCE IN SPAIN Supply of Galician Pine Has Been Cut Off by the War May Use Native Wood. The shortage in the supply of wood pulp for paper manufacture in Spain, and the high prices now demanded for this product is causing some anxiety among paper manufacturers and publishers. pub-lishers. Attention has been given to the advisability of the government's undertaking to stimulate the cultivation cultiva-tion of the poplar tree, the wood of which is preferred for pulp in Spain. Spain imports almost all the wood pulp required for its paper industries and exports to England much of the pine grown in Galicia, which is highly resinous and not so well suited for paper manufacture as the less resinous pine of Sweden and Norway. Experiments, Experi-ments, however, are to be made to ascertain if, by extracting the resin, native Spanish pine can be used, at least as a temporary substitute. Most of the local paper mills, it is stated, cannot employ rag and jute wastes, their plants being adapted to wood and chemical pulps. Nearly all the waste material, such as fiber waste, rags and bagging, are exported, the United States having become, since the war, the leading customer. |