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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



There is a broad and growing field 

 for the logging engineer in the West. 

 Every other large industry can point 

 to its leaders: In electricity, Edison; in 



canal building, Goethals ; in railroad 

 building. Hill. Why not in the great 

 lumber business which ranks among the 

 first of the world's mighty industries? 



OUR TIMBER EXPORTS 



OFFICIAL statistics of exports of 

 forest products from United 

 States ports during the year end- 

 ing June 30, 1913, show an increase in 

 vakie of over $4,000,000. The total 

 value for the year under review 

 amounts to $96,782,186, as compared 

 with $92,225,951 for the preceding year. 

 The increase is due to expansion of 

 trade in boards, deals, planks, joists, 

 and scantling which account for more 

 than half the total export; the figures 

 are 2,340,909,000 ft. for 1912, against 

 2.060,965,000 ft. for the preceding year. 

 The advantage thus gained not only 

 makes up for the decrease in the ex- 

 port figures for timber but shows a 

 substantial increase on the combined 

 figures. Timber, hewn and sawn, has 



fallen from 531,634,000 ft. exported in 

 1910-11 to 438,021,000 ft. for last year. 

 The loss is not attributable to any 

 marked individual reduction, but is 

 spread over all the consuming markets. 

 In lumber the figures for Canada show 

 the large increase of 49,736,000 ft. over 

 the 403,285,000 ft. of the preceding 

 vear ; South America took the enormous 

 addition of 139,683,000 ft. over 1911 ; 

 British Oceana 31,937,000 ft.; Nether- 

 lands 20,728,000 ft.; United Kingdom 

 10,104,000 ft. (from 216.433,000 ft. to 

 226.537,000 ft.). On the other hand 

 shipments to China show a falling ofif of 

 37.945,000 ft.; Africa a loss of 10.001,- 

 000 ft. ; Cuba 8,925,000 ft. ; Italv 5.818,- 

 000 ft. ; Belgium 4,466,000 ft. ;" France 

 3,758,000 ft.; Germany 2,983,000 ft. 



BOY SCOUTS TO PLANT TREES 



r H. McGILLn'RAY, Deputy 



ff LForest Warden of Michigan, un- 

 ^^"^ der the direction of Major Will- 

 iam R. Oates, who organized the Mich- 

 igan Forest Scouts, including the Boy 

 Scouts of America, has worked out an- 

 other plan for showing the boy scouts 

 how to be of help to the nation. Mc- 

 Gillivray is planning to have 5,000 boys 

 plant pine seedlings next year. The 

 planting will be done on the land from 

 which trees have just been cut down. 

 The seedlings 'are secured froiu the 

 Agricultural College plantation, and the 

 railroads deliver them to the bov scouts 



free of charge. "When a scout or a 

 company of scouts," writes McGilliv- 

 ray, "makes a showing in planting the 

 seedlings we put an honor medal on 

 each scout for service. 



"Permit me to suggest that it would 

 be a splendid thing if you could work 

 your scouts with the State Forestry 

 Warden of the forest districts in fire 

 ]:)rotection and reforestation. Here in 

 Michigan, for the present at least, we 

 must maintain the integrity of our 

 State organization, but there is no 

 reason why you could not line uj) all 

 the other States in this service." 



