The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-11-28
NE'W ENGLAND NEEDS
FOREST STATION
Because the Territory Has Big Forest
Problems to Deal
With.

The need for forest experiment
station for New England and New
York, where so per cent of the Ameri
can production of newsprint paper is
manufactured, and where many mil.
lions of acres of good forest land lie
waste in the face of mounting de.
mand for timber, is set forth in a re.
port of the forest service, United
States department of agriculture, just
OIL the press.
The proposed station in the north
east section of the country is one OF
10 which the department states should
be ultimately established to meet a
timber situation which is yearly grow
ing more critical and carrying the
country forward rapidly to the point
where it may have to depend largely
upon foreign supplies, with drastic
limitations as to amount and excessive
prices az a result.
Region Has Big Forestry Problems
There are important facts which
amply justify northeastern expert
ment station says the report, forest
experiment stations, circular No. 1873,
United States department of agricul-
ture, copies Of which may be obtained
free of charge upon application to the
department at Washington.
New England produces 30 per cent
Of our news print and New York so
per cent. Maine is the leading state in
pulp production.
New England produces Is per cent
Of the boxes of the country.
New England's' agricultural prod
ucts are $20,000,000 less in value than
the products of its wood -manufactur-
ing industries. 1t has seven agricuItur-
al experiment stations. 4
''The American pulp and paper in
dustry, conferred largely in the north
east. imports one-fourth of its pulp
wood from Canada and an additional
percentage of pulp.
New York imports one third Of the
100000 cords Of pulp wood it con-
sumes annually.
Already large percentage of the
pulp and paper manufac-
turers are totally dependent on the
purchase Of pulp wood, and only
small percentage are entirely independ
ent.
THE rapid expansion OF the Canadi-
an industry threatens to extend to
private lands the pulp-wood embargo
in effect on crown lands in several
provinces.
New England imports half its lum-
Der and New York cuts less than half
its requirements.
"a northeastern forest experiment
station must therefore work on the
problems Of spruce forests, important
from the standpoint Of pulp
wood production, and upon the prob
lens Of the white pine and hardwood
forests, which in both New England
and New York should supply large
percentage, If not all, Of the require
ments of the local industry.
Insects and Blight kin Many Trees.
"These problems, already complicat-
I'd by greatly diversified forest condi-
lions, are made still more difficult be-
,ause OF the devastations Of the gypsy
and browntail moths, the white pine
blister rust and the chestnut blight.
Commercial tracts of considerable size
viii continue to be large factor in |
timber growing; and the farm wood
ot throughout the northeast, by the
iull utilization of its soil, can be made
% produce vastly larger timber crops,
ind thus materially supplement and
stabilize agriculture.
"That the productivity Of New Eng !
and timberlands may be greatly in
reased through better handling is per-
ectly evident from the progress al 1
eady made in this direction on the ma
ional forests and on few private
racts. In no other region Of the Unit
a States are economic conditions more
adorable for the practice Of forestry
" public or private owners, Large
markets are only few miles from the
orests Because Of large investments
n plants, pulp and paper concerns will,
necessary, pay high prices for raw
materials. Utilization can often be as
omplete as under intensive European
racticc." \