Show Should Lead World I in Pulp Wood Crop United States Capable of Producing Own Supply Washington As As in the production of corn crops the United States can lead the world In the production of timber crops for pulp wood declares the forest service United States Department Department Department De De- of Agriculture In its new publication on pulp wood supplies This report was prepared In cooperation cooperation cooperation op co with time the American Paper and Pulp association and represents the most comprehensive survey of pulp pulpwood pulpwood wood resources ever made In this country It has been printed as a public pub pUb- lie lic document and Is available for general general general gen gen- eral distribution upon request to the forest service Washington D. D C. C To understand the paper and pulp situation now confronting the tike United States the report sn says s 's it Is s necessary to realize that over 90 00 per cent of all paper consumed In the United States Is made mno from wood and that per percent percent percent cent of print news-print paper Is so made The consumption of paper in the United States amounts to tons tong a year It takes over cords of wood to make malce this amount At the present time this nation imports imports imports im im- im- im ports over half its paper supply In the form of ot finished paper pulp an and wood suitable for malting making pulp But Dut the forest service declares tho the United States can cnn become Independent ent of foreign countries for Its paper supply by first growing larger timber timber timber tim tim- ber crops on forest land second by better utilization of forest products I nn and third by the time expansion of papermakIng papermaking papermaking paper- paper making processes so that more species of ot timber can enn be used for pulp wood Farmer Biggest Timber Owner At the present time the newly published published pub pub- report states the United States contains acres of ot forest land not needed or taken by ture It Is s upon these lands that larger larg larg- er timber crops should be grown The farmer Is the largest single class of timber land owners having about acres or third one In the form of small woodlots The potential productivity of this timber land Is la higher than that of any other which Is an Important producing paper na- na Uon The principal species of timber now used In making paper are spruce spruce fir hemlock and poplar One reason why the United States Is forced to Import over o half halt Its paper supply Is because of ot the centralization of the tho papermaking papermaking paper- paper making Industry In the northeast and lake states where large stands of spruce fir hemlock and poplar were once available a In large quantities But as these timber stands were also called upon to furnish a n large share of the country's lumber supply they have been drained to such an extent that they no longer can cnn meet Increasing Increasing increasIng ing demands New York ranks first as a paper- paper producing state yet gets over half Its raw materials material from outside Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania ranks second and also has hns hasto hasto to depend upon outside sources Wisconsin WIsconsin Wisconsin Wis WIs- Is the third largest pap papermaking paper mak r-mak- r ing lag state and It ft too Is forced to go outside Its boundaries for much of Its raw materials The Time optimistic note In the report Is furnished by the fact that Washington Washing Washing- ton Oregon California nn and Alaska together together to to- gether gettler with the pine timber In the South still contain wood woo forests which can cun be utilized for tor paper makIt making making mak mak- ing If It these forests are logged In a n wise fashion and protected from the terrible devastation de caused by forest fires Paper Supply Is la Vital To show the vital necessity for tor this nation to have ample supplies of paper paper pa pa- per Ier for all time says a n statement from the forest service Ice It Is only necessary to point out the fact that our per capita consumption Is twice that of Great Britain the next largest larg larg- largest est cst paper consuming nation Social and economic questions would be Involved Involved involved In In- If It this country's supply of ot paper paper pa pa- per and paper products were to oe De curtailed liedThe lied The public has an Interest Jn tin this problem which It can help solve by legislation looking to the protection of or forest land lund from fire and other forms of devastation and by continued research research research re re- re- re search Into methods of timber growing nn and utilization The paper and pulp Industry should to safeguard Its own Interest assume the leadership In timber growIng growIng growing grow grow- ing upon Its own forest land and those upon which It I b mar dependent for tor pull puli wood supplies lIes I j |