The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-11-02
UNITED STATES TIMBER SUPPLY.
Are Cutting 500 Feet Beard Measure
Each Year Per Person.


eve are how cutting timber from the
forests q the United States Al the rate
81 500 feet board measure q year Tor
every man. woman and child. In Eu'
rope they use only % board feet"
Few statements could he made which
would better convince the average man
that this country leads the world Ia the
demand for timber. IL is made by
TreaaweI Cleveland, Jry in q circular
Whieh treats o. the conservation q the
forest. soil. water. and al the other
great natural resources, which has just
been published hy the United states
Forest Services IN speaking iuriaer Of
the consumption d timber ~ tins eoun-
try. ar. Cleveland says;
AT this rate, IN less than thirty years
an our remaining virgin timber VIII De
cut. Meantime. the forests which have
been cut over are generally IN a bad way
FOR rant Of care; they will produce only
inferior second growth We are clearly
on the verge Of timber famine.
"Th.s 4 rot due to necessity, Tor the
forests are one Of the renewable re-
sources Rightly used, they 80 en- pro.
dueinr crop after crop indefinitely. The
countries Of Europg know this, and Jap
an knows It's and them forests are be-
coming With time not Jess but more
proaneiiye We probably stiii posses 5
sufficient forest land "a grow wood
enough al home 10 supply our own needle.
II We are not blind. or wilfully waste
ful. We NAV vet preserve our forest indie
incidence and. with il, the fourth Of our
great industries,
Present wastes in humber production
are enormous. Take the case OF yellow
pine. which now heads the .ist IN tae
volume Of annual cut. In 1907 IL j. esti.
mated that only one,half Of al The yell
ioa pine cut during the season was used,
and that the only half, amounting %
100000 cords. was wasted. Such waste
4 typical Mr. II. 4. long, in his al
dress on Forest Conservation at the
conference Of governors last spring
pointed out thai 20 per cent. Of the
yellow pine vas simply left in the woods
a waste which represents the timber
growing on coz. 600 acres.
.The rest 81 the waste takes place AZ
ilrs mill OF course, i would never do
20 speak Of the material rejected az the
mil a. waste unless this material e0uic
BE- turned 70 use By some better and
more thorough form of utilization. But
in many cases we know and in many
other, cases we have excellent reason 10
believe. that most. ii not all, Of this ma
terial could be used With profit II is
simply question Of intelligent investi-
CATION and, more than all, OF having the
Will 20 economic.
But there are other ways 70 conserve
the forests besides cutting In half the
present waste Of FORGET products The
forests can be made 10 produee three or
four times al rapidly a. they do az pres
ent This IS true Of both the virgin for
ests and the cut-oyer lands Virgin for.
ests are often fully stocked with first
class timber but this stock has been laid
in very slowly, on account Of the waste
ful competition which is carried on con
SANITY between the rival trees. Then,
too. in the virgin forests there are very
many trees which have reached maturity
and stopped growing. and these occupy
space which. II held by younger trees,
would BE- laying in new stock con
stantly As regards the cut-over land,
severe cutting. followed by fire. has
checked growth 80 seriously that IN
most cases reproduction Is both poor
and slow. while in many other eases
there il no true forest reproduction at
al at present. ard there il but little
hope for the future