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by the manufacturers of hardwood lumber to secure the small amount 

 of good material which still may be found in our southern Michigan 

 woodlots, and in the announcement that one large manufacturing con- 

 cern will, in the future, depend entirely upon woodlots for the lumber 

 used by it. Such indications should not be neglected, but rather should 

 stimulate owners of land suitable for woodlots to put them into the 

 best possible condition to insure a maximum productiveness of the best 

 kinds of timber which they will grow, for, in the light of. the experience 

 of other countries, and of other parts of our own country, the time is 

 rapidly coming, when a considerable per cent. • of the lumber used in 

 any locality will be home grown, hence the woodlbt will fill a very dif- 

 ferent economic place from that which it occupies at present. 

 C A. Davis, Department of Forestry, 

 University of Michigan. 



