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Show MORE WOOD CONSUMED HERE. The United States uses more wood than any other country. In fact the consumption in this country equals about two-fifths of the entire consumption con-sumption of the world, or, expressed in round figures, about 22 1-2 billion bil-lion cubic feet, declares the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture. The per capita consumption in this country is 212 cubic feet, of which 110 cubic feet, or a little more than half, is saw-timber, and the balance consists of cordwood, continues the department's report, which was recently re-cently printed for public distribution.- Including the losses by fire, insects, in-sects, and disease, the total drain on the country's forests is close to 25 billion cubic feet. At the present time this country is growing only about R billion cubic feet. However, according accord-ing to the lata contained in the report, re-port, if the entire forest area of the country some 470.000.000 acres were placed under intensive forestry about 27 billion cubic feet of timber could ultimately be produced each year. This amount would exceed' the present drain on our forests by a relatively rel-atively small margin. |