| Show I 1 y cedar wood for lead pencils the lead pencil is one of ane most st 60 common articles in every day ay use and iid nearly pencils are kanuf manufactured turbid in this country oan t ry every year to manufacture these milli millions of 10 pencils there chero are required tons or cubic feet of wood so that each day in the year tons or 1 1 cubic feet of wood are used for pencils sinde since practically all of the wood is red cedar and since since abe pencil industry is steadily growing tile the supply of re red d cedar is is g greatly depleted yet y no substitute has bag been found fer it leav leaving ng out ocon of consider sider nation the imported pencils tile the average educated american or over 10 years of age uses six peni pe n cila of home manufacture tach ach it yeah year ten years ago he used less than five red cedar has aloft a soft straight tain grain and whon when grown under best conditions editions is ig v very ery free from froin defects Because of its pe culiar qualities no equally good subs substitute NI titu to for it has ever been found ifould and it is doubty 11 1 if any other wood using industry is is so dependant upon a single species i I 1 os as the pencil industry is de pendent upon red codar cedar in fact red cadar suitable for pen cil manufacture e is the only wood tile the price pice of which is always quoted by the pound strange as it may seem no steps ha have vo heretofore beet been taken to provide for a future su supply I 1 of red cedar this lias has been largely due to it a lack i 0 I 1 information ou the rate of if 0 growt hand the habits of thu tho tree and to the widespread wide spread belief lie rAll that a t second growth red cedar 1 I ar never rea reaches ciles s merchantable size size in accordia accor accordance dim e with its A policy toward the conservation and economic use of com connner 0 cial al woods the fore forest st service ii lias a s made a careful study or of red cedar and has come to the conclusion that it can profitably be grown in regions i of its development ment several changes are recommended in present forest kitna management gement I 1 in iii order to se secure cure the desired gr growth howth I 1 lu in the southern forests the cedar aill vill have vo to be given a better betteli chance instead of being considered as now a negligible lu gintry 1 in i n its younger stages and aaa many r ay iy of tile the forest grown trees which are now nov cut for fence posts can profitably be left to attain their teiei r full development and thus become available for pencil wood |
