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Show 1943 Requirements Demand Increase in Hardwood Lumber URBANA, ILL. Production of hardwood lumber will have to be stepped up if demands are to be met and the 1943 minimum requirements require-ments of six-billion . board feet of hardwood lumber made available, says J. E. Davis, extension forester of the State Natural History Survey and University of Illinois college of agriculture, and chairman of the Illinois Illi-nois wartime timber marketing committee. com-mittee. Among the important needs are the army's programs for aircraft, motor transport, ammunition and soldiers' locker boxes. The navy and maritime commission need hardwood hard-wood for ships and boats, and the lend-lease program depends on American hardwoods for aircraft, shipyards, railroads and many other uses essential to victory. Boxing and crating requirements are increasing, in-creasing, not alone for munitions and materials of war, but for shipment ship-ment of agricultural products in our farm crop goal. It is equally important to meet our indirect war needs, Davis says. Soldiers Sol-diers cannot be equipped with clothing cloth-ing and parachutes if our textile industry in-dustry is handicapped for lack of bobbins and picker sticks. Food cannot can-not be provided for our fighting forces if hardwoods are not available availa-ble to manufacture farm equipment, machinery and implements, and railroads will be unable to transport trans-port military supplies unless supplied sup-plied with lumber necessary to keep them operating. |