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Show WOOD GETS SCARCER. Disappearing II. fore the World's la. ereaslng ('ontamntlnn. "Dr. W. Rchllch. the well-known for. mt expert, In a recent addres befor th London r'oclety of Arts, predicted a positive timber famine In the near future unless systematic mensure for increasing ttie world's supply be speedily speed-ily adopted. Ho pointed out that the uso of wiaid. In spltn of Its replacement by coul us fuel and by steel lu construction, con-struction, waa steudlly Increasing. Th per rnpllu consumption lu tha four chief countries of Kurnpo I now fourteen ruble feet ench year, and In a few years will probably reach twenty cubic feet. Kur this Increase tho Use of wood In paper making seem chiefly chief-ly responsible. The steady rise In price, especially of coniferous woods, In splto of much cheaper transportation, transporta-tion, ahnw tnnt the world supplies ar rapidly diminishing. Only five out of alKhtcen Kuropcan countries export more timber than they import. Scandinavia Scan-dinavia and It linn I a are the principal exporter. The limit of production In Itie former seem to have s been reached. Kusala still ha large forests, for-ests, but domestic demands nre ruillilly Increasing and an exportable surplus ennnot long lie depended upon. The North American supplies ar visibly declining. China has no timber tim-ber to spare, and that country, when developed on modern llnefl, will be an Importer rather than an exporter, Ther remain the rest of Asia, Bomb America and Africa a sources of supply. sup-ply. Hut these do not furnUh any considerable con-siderable amount of conlforoua woods, which are moat In demand. Dr. 9chllch therefore concluded that the danger of a deficient supply of coniferous wood was practically at hand, snd thnt dellcleniy of all would soon occur oc-cur unless remedial measures were adopted. The remedy I easy, although time I required fur its application. It Is, Ir. Hchllrh pointed out. to cultivate cul-tivate timber upon waste land, Just a other crop are cultivated upon mor fertile soil. In Oreut Ilrltaln alon there are SS.OOO.OOO acres of inch lands. On quarter of thl area, Dr. Schllch naaerted, would make tha country Independent of foreign aup-pile aup-pile of timber. The same remedy would restore the declining timber Industry In-dustry of tb United State. Th Former. |