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Show Watte of Wood In America. Every person In the United States Is using over six times as much wood as ho would uso If he were in Europe. The country as a wholo consumes every ev-ery year between three and four times as much wood as all tho forests ot the United States grow in the meantime. mean-time. The .average acre of forest lays up a store of only ten cubic feet annually, an-nually, whereas It ought to be laying up at least 30 cubic feet In order to furnish tho products taken out of It Since 1880 morethan 700,000,000,000 foot of tlmbor have been cut for lumber lum-ber alone, Including 80,000,000,000 feet ot coniferous timber In excess of the total coniferous stumpage estimate of tho census ot 1880. |