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Show BOY SCOUTS TO HELP U. S. FIND BLACK WALNUT SUPPLY. ' President's Wilson's appeal to the Boy Scouts of America to help win the war by locating supplies of black walnut trees has been followed by arrangements .mder which the War Department, the Forest Service and the UoyScout organization have joined efforts to find the needed timber. As Fresident Wilson pointed out, the War Department program makes the securing of black walnut lumber lor use In manufacturing airplane propellers pro-pellers and gunstocks of the utmost importance. War Department and Forest' Service officials are combing the country for black walnut timber, which can no longer be found in abundance ab-undance nowhere, but has to be fulled, often as single trees, from mixed forest for-est growths. Much of the black wal-r,ut wal-r,ut that is left is in the farmers' wood lots, and it Is primarily to locate this that the Boy Scouts have been called Into service. In the aggregate there are said to be large supplies. Many thousands of blanks and letters let-ters of instructions are being printed by the government for distribution to scouts and scout masters throughout the region in which black walnut occurs oc-curs in commercial quantities. Individual In-dividual trees may be found as far cast a8 Connecticut, northward in New York to and 1 eyond the Canadian line, southward almost to the Gulf, of Mexico, and westward far into the prairie 6tates, but the Ohio and Mississippi Mis-sissippi valley states, the middle Atlantic At-lantic states, and the southern Apna lachlan region are expetted to furnish fur-nish most of the supplv. As reports are turned In by the scout masters, they will be tabulated by the forest service and reported to the ar department. |