The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1920-08-16
FORESTRY POLICY.
One of the Important Tasks Facing the
Next Presidency.

The next president of the United
States can put his name in the Hall OF
Fame if he will start something" con
structive looking toward a national
forest policy, in the opinion of Charles
Lathrop Pack, president of the Amer
lean Forestry association, who con.
graduated the American people on the
fact that the next president will he
the publisher of newspaper.
I'VE are particularly fortunate" said
Mr.. Pack, lin that the next president
will be a man who doubtless has been
hard pushed to keep going the business
by which he makes livelihood, that
of publishing newspaper, because of
the mounting cost of pulpwood and as
a result the increased cost of print pa
pers. Neither Mr.. Harding nor Mr..
Cox must be converted to the need of
a national forest policy. Here is some
thing they surely agree upon. If the
winner will take active steps toward
formulating a national forest policy lie
is assured of place in the Hall of
Fame"
Mr. Pack, who calls on all citizens
to join the association in its campaign
points to the way the business of the
nation is tied up and depends upon the
forest products by citing this list of
things that enter into our everyday
life:
Sash, doors, blinds, and general mill
wood, windows and door screens and
weather strips, wooden packing boxes,
cigar boxes, barrels and kegs, turned
and carved wood, lasts, wooden fur
niture, including rattan and willow,
show cases, billiard tables and mate
rails, looking glasses and picture
frames, sewing machine cases, baskets
and rattan and willow ware, collins
and burial cases, rules, matches, pulp
woods, wood carpet, charcoal, 'reated
and preserved woods, carriages and
wagons, aeroplanes, agricultural imple'
mentf, dairymen's, poulters' and apiar-
lists supplies, wood for engraving, Iuu-
steal instruments and materials, graph
aphones,. tobacco pipes, refrigerators,
and kitchen cabinets, ships and boards,
toys and games, turpentine and rosin,
washing machines and clothes wringcrs,
wood distillates, artificial limbs, pro-
fessional and scientific trunks, shut
ties, spools and bobbins, firearms, pull
leys and conveyors, patterns and TASKS,
pulp and wood pipe, tanks and silos,
bungs and faucets, brooms and carpet
sweepers, paving materials, plumbers
woodwork.
The American Forestry association
points out that virgin forests Of the
United States covered s22 million acres.
They are now shrunk TO one-siXth of
that area. All classes of forest land,
including culled, burned, and cut-over
areas, now aggregate 1852 million acres.
OF a little more than one-half Of our
original forests. OF the forest land
remaining and not utilized for farming
OF any other purpose, approximately
eighty.one million acres have been so
severely cut and burned as to become
an unproductive waste. This area Is
equivalent 70 the combined forests Of
Germany, Denmark, Holland, Belgium,
France. Switzerland, Spain and Portu-
gal Upon an enormous additional
area the growth Of timber is so small
in amount OF of such inferior chsrae-
ter that its economic value is negli-
gible
Merehantable saw timber is esti-
mated at e.2l5 billion board feet, some
thing less than three-fourths Of which
il virgin stumpaee. The rest Is second
growth Of relatively inferior quality.
About one-half Of the timber left Is
in the three Pacific coast states and
over 81 per cent is west Of the Great
Plains. A little over one fifth Of the
timber left in the country, 400 billion
board feet. is hardwood
Every year there Is now consumed
or destroyed IS billion board feet q
material Of saw timber size. The to-
tai yearly consumption Of all classes
Of timber is about twenty-siN billion
cubic feet Our depleted forests are
growing less than one fourth Of this
amount. The United States Is not