Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-11-21
END NATIONAL
MEET ON FOREST
PRODUCTS OF U. s.

Washington, Nov. 20-The first ma
tional conference OF utilization OF
forest products. called under the aus
pieces OF the department OF agricul-
ture to consider elimination of wood
waste, late today concluded its two
day session after mapping out a per-
manent program and entrusting 1t to
the central committee on lumber
standards.
This committee is representative OF
lumber manufacturers, distributors,
wood using industries, architects and
engineers.
The report OF the conferences
committee on permanent organtZa-
ton and program, appointed yester-
day by Acting Secretary Gore of the
agriculture department. was adopted
by unanimous vote. The confer
ence directed that this committee
continue and cooperate with the CEN
trail committee. which will function
under the program as the central
committee ON utilization of forest
products"
The program of activities as
adopted, calls for completion and
general adoption Of humber standards
as recommended by the central COM
mitee: development of the applica-
ton of scientific principles to the
problems of piling, storing and dry
ing lumber, in all its forms: wood
preservatiye treatments. extension OF
use of delay prevention in pulp and
pulpwood i'll storage; consideration
of scientific methods for arrest and
prevention Of decay in logs and lum-
Der: encouragement of surveys with
the object of utilizing waste products
through diversified operations; de-
vclopment. improvement and unity
ing of building codes: improved de-
signs of boxes and crates and other
economies. and enCoura cement of inn
provements and economies by organ
lied industrial units consumin forest
products.
Lines of investigation which. in the
opinion of the conference committee,
require first consideration. are: For
est drain loss in the woods; saw mill
waste and practices and machinery:
best uses OF so-Called inferior species
properties of wood: Il timber survey,
embracing the supply. amount OF
land available by regions and classes
of soil on which forests can now and
later be grown and the rate at which
timber IS now growing and the po-
tential growing capacity of the land =:
wood-using industry survey; forest
protection from fires. insects and tree
diseases. and possible use ot tropical
woods to supplement American high
grade hardwoods, being rapidly de-
Ileted.
The necessity of putting idle land
to work in growing tree crops by the
cooperation of the states with the
federal government. through the
medium Of the Clarke McNary for
cstry act. was pointed out during the
discussion on the committee report
by Representative Clarke, Republi-
can. New York, co-author of the act,
and David Goodwillie of Chicago and
w. A. Guthrie of indianapolis. Ind,
delegates to the conference,
William l.. Sykes. president Of the
Emporium Forestry Company OF
confer, \. Y, advocated n protective
duty on imported news print to aid
the American industry. All the big
and aged trees in the United States
will be gone in % years, when the
population of the country has in
creased. Mr.. Sykes said, in taking is
sue with the commonly expressed
belief that American forests NAV be
grown up i'll century. 1t takes n
couple OF hundred years. he declared.
Tor trees to grow in girth to make
them so much more valuable Der
thousand feet than the younger stock
that is now being use.
Ky r rising vote, the conference
ADOPTED a resolution which stated
mat forest conservation had suffer-
ed q loss in the death of Secretary
Nallacep