| Show SCOUTS FIND BLACK WALNUT the requirements for gunstocks gun stocks and airplane propellers are larger than the unaided efforts of the walnut manufacturers of the country promise to supply tills this is due entirely to ric file lack of walnut logs and not at all to lack of machinery for manufacture the boy scouts of america are engaged in a countrywide country wide search for black walnut trees and are proving particularly effective in locating large old trees which abound in the longer settled parts of the country for several years past the walnut industry has come to depend upon the middle west for its logs the present need hash has brought into tile market walnut trees which were not for sale a few years ago and the scouts have been valuable in locating these reports of all trees over 1 12 19 9 inches in diameter are forwarded by to the forest service andi and are there tabulated the forest service acknowledges receipt of the report and the war dopart department ment brings the owner and the log buyer together tile the couls bouts so tar far have reported enough blach walnut to make carloads but the government needs far more than this |
