The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-21
SEEK LOCATION IN VERMONT.
Three Concerns Using Hardwood Write
to State Forester.

to State Forester.
Within the past three weeks the state
forester has received inquiries from three
out-of-the.state manufacturing concerns
regarding sections OF Vermont favorable
for the location of their plants. The
essential factor in influencing wood-us-
ing concerns TO locate is, of course, n
large supply Of wood such as they use
for their special purposes. Many similar
requests are received annually, but the
three mentioned may serve to indicate
the kind of information desired One
of these concerns, located in Virginia,
wishes supply of beech and maple for
the making Of butter dishes; another in
New York needs large supply OF maple
for the manufacture of bowling balls, ten
pins and other turned goods; and the
third, Connecticut concern, desires to
locate basket plant at some point
where white birch logs are plenty.
Whether these requests are due to
prosperous times, or TO the growing
scarcity Of lumber, the fact remains that
Vermont has much land covered with
hardwood growth of the kind desired by
these companies. Hardwoods are not as
profitable to raise as are softwoods, be-
cause they are slower growing; are much
more subject to defects; never produce
large amounts per acre; and cannot be
driven on streams. Hence much Of the
land now covered with handwOods should
be changed into a softwood forest. This
can only be done through removal
of the hardwood trees. Softwood regen-
Grafton can often be secured through nat.
ural reproduction where sufficient seed
trees Of the desired species are left; in
other cases il will have 10 be secured
by planting.
There is az present in Vermont a lack
OF market in many regions for hard
woods. Hence every new industry using
hardwoods that can be induce into the
state may be Of great benefit, not only
in increasing the tax list and furnishing
labor. but in interesting their owners in
the practice OF forestry.
Many such, however, judging from the
past experience. do not welcome the
coming OF new industries of this kind
They have seen great areas cut clean,
and left trap for fire and unprotected
from the washing effect Of heavy rains
and melting SHOWS The state forester
does not wish 10 be party TO such
work. but believes that such industries
may be benefit or bane to a com
munity, according rs the land owners
direct il. For this reason be invites any
association of men, owning large tracts
of timber, which is willing TO agree to
cut according 10 his Instructions, to
write him specifying the area controlled,
as well as the kind and approximate
amount OF the timber available, railroad
facilities, etc Hereafter inquiries such
as those cited at the beginning of this
statement win be referred to such asso.
Citations as possess the desired kind of
timber.
There has recently been organized in
Thetford under the direction of the state
forester, forestry society, the purposes
Of which are the study Of forestry and
the adoption of forestry principles
throughout the town.
Organizations Of this kind are partic-
ularly fitted to take advantage Of this
offer Of the state forester, and it is
strongly recommended that similar OF
CARNATIONS be formed in other parts Of
the state.