| Show I 1 WASTE OF TIMBER few stat sta tenie enieT i could be made winch which would be r convince con vinco the lav average man that this country leads the world in the fhe demand for timber than Is made by treadwell cleveland jr in a circular which treats of the conservation of the forests soil water and all the other great natural re four fourges ces which has just been published by tha united states slates forest service ho he says we are now cutting timber from tie lie forests of tae fae united states at the rate of feet board measure a year for every man woman and chi child id in europe they ube only CO 60 board feet k in speaking further of the consumption 1 of of timber in this con country mr air cleveland nys 1 I 1 at this rato rate in less than thirty ears barz all our remaining virgin timber will be ba cut meantime the forests which velch have been CUT cur over are generally in a baj way for want vant of care they will produce only inferior second growth we are clearly over the I 1 Y rge of a timber famine chis is not duo to necessity for the forests are one of the renewable resources rightly used they they go 90 on producing crop after croy croo indefinitely the count countries of europe know chiz and japan knows and theft foretay are becoming with time not less but more r we probably still possess sufficient forest land to grow wood enough at home bome to sup ply our own needs it if we are arc not mind blind or wilfully wasteful tul we may yet preserve our forest independence and with it cie fourth of our great inaus industries tries present wastes in lumber productions are enormous take the dase case of yellow pine which now heads the list in the volume of annual cut in it is estimated that only one half of all the yellow pine cut during the season was used and that the either r halt amounting to 1 cords was wasted sueh such waste was typical sir R A long in his address on forest conservation at the conference ot of governors last spring pointed put out that 20 per cent of the yellow pine was simply left in the R coda a waste which represents the timber growth on acres the rest of the waste takes place at the mill of course it would never do to speak of the cie material rejected att at the mill as waste unless this mai tf rial could he e turned to use uee by some b otter better and more thoro thorough form of utilization dut but in many oases we know and in many other cases case s we havo excel loit reason to believe bel iove that most moat it if not all ot of this material could I 1 lie be used with profit it is simply a question of intelligent investigation an iid dmore moro than all of at having th the e will to economize I 1 dut but thore aro are other ways to conis ft e c the forests besides cutting in halt half the present waste of forest I 1 ducts the forests clan can be made to I 1 produce three or four times as rapidly a as they do at present this is true of both the virgin forests and the cut cui over lands virgin forests are often fully stocked with first class clasa timber but this stock has hag been laid in very slowly on account ot of the wasteful competition petit lon which Is carrle carried on constantly between the rival trees then too la in tho the virgin forests thure thre are very many trees which have reached maturity and stopped growing and these occupy space which if hold bold by younger trees would be laying in a new stock constantly au As tva regards gards the cut over lands 1 severe cutting followed by fire has checked growth so seriously that in roost most cases reproduction is both poor aind and slow blow while in many other cases there to Is no true forest reproduction at all at present and there Is but little hope tor for tire the future 11 |
