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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



The Municipal Landing on the Isar River Near Munich. Where the Rafts are 

 Broken Up and the Logs Sent Through the Mill. 



DRIVING IS STILL A COMMON PRACTICE IN THE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS OF GERMANY. 



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prised at the amount of lumber sea- 

 soned wholly in the open or under 

 sheds. Although considerable is dry 

 kilned not as much is put through 

 this process as one woiild naturally 

 expect. 



Since Germany's forests produce only 

 four principal species namely Scotch 

 pine, beech, Norway spruce, and silver 

 fir with only a little oak, ash, maple, 

 hornbeam, etc., their problem of utiliza- 

 tion is much simplified. Many foreign 

 woods, as a result, are introduced to 



supply the demand and American tim- 

 bers are highly prized. 



At several of the mills visited, many 

 intensive lines of utilization were de- 

 veloped. For instance, at one mill, be- 

 sides the usual liimber and box board 

 product, there were special machines 

 for turning out broom handles, wooden 

 shoes, implement stock, cooperage, 

 furniture stock, ties and excelsior, 

 and in addition there was a Bou- 

 cherie timber treating plant to pro- 

 long the life of telephone and telegraph 

 poles. 



In the United States as a ivhole four-fifths of the standing timber is privately otvned, and one-fifth 

 is owned by various States and the Federal Government. New York mvns one fifth of the forest land 

 of the State and one fourth of the standing timber. Owing to a clause in the Constitution this timber 

 cannot be cut even though it is dying or dead and a menace to healthy timber about it. The State should 

 allow careful cutting of mature timber in the Adirondacks. 



New York manufactures more pulp" paper than any other State, consuming over 1,000,000 cords 

 of wood per annm. Maine, its nearest competitor, is surpassed by over 100,000 cords. 



With over 6,000,000,000 bd. ft. of timber growing on the forest land owned by the people of the 

 State of New York, over $20,000,000 is sent out of the State each year for forest products. Proper 

 use of the mature forests of the State and reforestation of land now idle zvould keep much of this vast 

 sum in New York. 



