The Washington herald., 1922-01-27
FOOD OF FUTURE
DEPENDS ON FARM
SUPPLY OF WOOD
Clifford Pinchot Urging
Forest Policy Sounds
Grave Warning.
FRIDAY. JANUARY q. Is=s.

Tho IsterreIsftes sf Physie. s.e
Psychology" will be the subject
% a lecture by Prof Leonard T
Troiand before the Physics club
of the Bureau Of Standards. Ru-
reaU OF Standards. today, $50
O'clock. This IL the first Of a
series of lectures on the border
line between physics. psychology
and, physiology.
-senstsometry- will be the .,h.s.,
Of a lecture by Raymond Davis.
J OF the Bureau Of Standards At a
lecture before the Federal Photo
graphic Society. New National
Museum. tonight. s O'Clock.
Production OF wood is necessary
for the production Of food.
The farm industry IL the creates,
single user OF wood: farms consun.
more than half the wood Of America
Five-sixths Of our virgin timber
iS gone.
Within ten years the entire coun-
try will have 10 depend on two or
three States for all its softwooa
timber.
These arc statements Of Clifford
Pinchot made yesterday when h.
urged a national forest pclicv az
tho agricultural conference.
The farmer finds Il harder and
harder to get building lumber at rea-
sonable cost" he pointed out Two
thirds Of all the States. with 50. 900.
600 people ? more than four nffhs
II the farm values 81 the country.
depend for timber on the few remain
ing States which still cut more than
they consume"
Discussing the coming timber short
age. Mr.. PinchOt said: What We can
not supply at home we cannot secure
abroad. Far more Than half the ma
items Of the world arc dependent for
timber supplies upon forests beyond
their own boUndaries. Even Mexico
is an importer Of timber. while iigo
Canadians. if they should give ms an
they have. could meet our needs for
less than one generation.
The demands We mako upon "ur
forests arc gigantic. More than l"lf
4 all thc lumber used in the Mold
3 consumed in the Jnitel States.
Meantime We arc replacing 10y growth
nnIy cne-fourth Of what We cut. AMI
nur remaining supplies are winding
% an early end. We must grow What
need. or 60 without.
The 46O. .0O0. 600 acres of timborlani
which remain. II they produced ;"
cubic feet per acre per year. could
almost meet our present needs. But
they have been So mishsndled that
Is cubic feet is all they grow. while
our ponulation is increasing and the
uses Of wood are multiplying. high
er standard Of living always means
larger use 81 wood.
The public forests. national and
State are reasonably well handled.
hut they furnish less than PEI
cent II our lumber. and can never
sunrlv more than 20.
Farm wNodlets. scattered IN
small tracts outside the lumber re
gions. will always help the farm
crs. but cannot grow the vast quan-
titles Of saw timber we must have
20 live. They arc in little danger
Of Eevastation
The privately CONNER
c'al timberlands which contai0
most Of what timber we have le'f
are being devastated NOR" rapidly
and completely than ever hef"r". {"
the incalcuIable injury ~ the who'"
nation.
"Replantinr. IRE prevention. arf
the savirS of what timberlaras sit''
rnma'n on the public domain and
TIE Indian reservations ar" sac1
Il grea- Importance. hut II" first
thing IS 20 put an end TO forest d"v-
asation.
since the States which do -N'
have forests must depend On tEn--
which do. this matter must he har'-
died bv thu nation itself ma
tional law would becorne elective
everywhere ~ once. while II saw
ing our commercial forests w"r"
left TO the individual states. %
would undoubtedly he years he
fore those states which haN" lars"
supplies "t saw timber would taxi"
action BY that time II nigh o."
too late.
Meanwhile. IL is well To rn'"''.'-
ner tina, the forest Is ? crop 'n h'
grown from tho soil. not = ni'n" %
ne Exhausted and abandoned. as -.
lumherman do. and that Tho pro
I posal to take the L : T"r"sf r.
I ice out Of .he Department - ACr'-
culture is in fact proposal To
check the progress of forest pros
ervation in America"