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Show FOREST DIRECTOR WARNS AGAINST LUMBER FAMINE ATLANTIC CITV. N. J . OcL 23. K. I . t.r . .-.i-t.int Ctutfd Statc-s for- v:.r, told the xnnuat convention of the National Implement and Vehicle ; association here that the wood supplv of the United tRatea was rapidly becoming be-coming exhausted. nd lhat If the situation sit-uation were not squarely faced in the Immediate future "our stock of wood it the foreats Will have become cx-Unt cx-Unt t. "In its report to the BSnAtS the for--.' uervk-e outlines wtitif it believes should be done and action now rests With concreas and with th- gSSMMSl i public." he said Mr C-irter decland that as a result re-sult or the Investigation of the for. t service. It ha bn ascertained that two-thirds of the area of the country-had country-had been culled, cut over or burned: that the virgin foretrta of New England, of the Allegheny region and or the laki slates are practically gone, and Lba virgin fcresla of the aouthern pine region havo been reduced until there can be no substantial Inereaac In production. pro-duction. He advocated an Appropriation of 1 1.000. 000 annually by eongreaa for the purpose of removing the forest fire menace. |