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siderable degree the coarse end of Canadian forest products. Today 

 the situation is reversed. There is no menace to any lumberman in 

 any possible competition with Canadian lumber. With the approach- 

 ing denudation of our forests we need all the lumber we can secure 

 from Canada to supplement our own diminishing supply. Before 

 very long, many of the men who were so insistent that a tariff on 

 Canadian woods be imposed, will 

 be equally solicitous in their de- 

 mands that the lumber tariff law 

 be repealed. 



While the lumber industry is en- 

 titled to its full share of any pos- 

 sible protection that may accrue 

 from a high protective tariff, it 

 very likely will soon be the spirit 

 of American lumbermen that for 

 the sake of a general reduction in 

 tariff duties against many articles 

 of American production, it will 

 waive all rights and claims to hav- 

 ing the lumber industry protected 

 by a duty on lumber manufactured 

 in Canada. 



The foregoing features of lumber 

 tariff sentiment will soon be aug- 

 mented by a large number of 

 American operators who will seek 

 the now very little encroached upon 

 hardwoods of Canada as a base of 

 future lumber operations. Cana- 

 dian hardwood forests are of large 

 extent, and are as yet scarcely 

 touched from an operating stand- 

 point. Canada is particularly rich 

 in red birch, elm, maple, basswood 

 and beech. All the remaining 

 stands of these woods within the 

 United States are now under oper- 

 ation, and it may be wise for 

 American lumbermen to put them- 

 selves in a position to be able to 

 negotiate for Canadian timber 

 lands, with an idea of speedily put- 

 ting them under tribute for a 

 future source of hardwood timber 

 supply. 



Forest Economies. 



There seems to be a general impulse on the part of hardwood 

 manufacturers to institute plans looking toward economy of woods 

 waste, manufacturing such that may possess a value above the cost 

 of production, into various small articles. During the past year there 

 has been a marked increase of the number of wood chemical plants 



producing wood alcohol, acetate of 



lime and by-products, and many 



hundreds of plants have been in- 



FORESTR.Y It stalled for the manufacture of 



staves and heading from materials 



The Recent Meeting. 



The members of the National 

 Hardwood Lumber Association, 

 which held its eighth annual meet- 

 ing at Buffalo, May 18 and 19, 

 may be congratulated on the spirit 

 of harmony that prevailed at this 

 meeting, as well as the general ad- 

 vance made in association work for 

 the hardwood industry. The cor- 

 rection of incongruities in its in- 

 spection rules and the advance 

 made in methods of application of 

 these rules, is a marked step 

 toward the eventual desideratum of 

 universal hardwood inspection. 



The convention was also very wise in its hearty endorsement of 

 a plea made for forestry enactments and in its promised cooperation 

 with the American Forestry Association in carrying forward the 

 work of rehabilitation. 



On the whole, the association made more marked advance in its 

 work at this meeting than ever before in its history, and it is there- 

 ihh pleasure that the Hardwood Record congratulates it. 



Recognizing the rapidly approaching extinction of the area 

 of hardwood growth of the United States, and the essential 

 value and necessity of measures being taken to perpetuate 

 the lumber industry, and to provide for a future timber sup- 

 ply of this nation, I desire to recommend to this association 

 and the individual members thereof that they interest them- 

 selves in the problems of practical forestry and reforestry. 



The first value to be considered in our lands is the fruits 

 of agriculture — the raising of crops whereby the nation may 

 be fed. The next most important feature is the growing of 

 timber, by means of which the nation may be housed. 



It has been a matter of public notoriety for years that 

 the coniferous growth of the United States lying east of 

 the Rocky mountains has become disseminated to an extent 

 that the possible supply was insufficient to the demands 

 of commerce, and today the reserve lying within Canada 

 and on the Pacific coast is being very largely drawn upon 

 to cover the needs of the eastern part of the continent. Lit- 

 tle has been said about the lessening supply of hardwoods, 

 but as a matter of fact the hardwood timber supply of this 

 country, which grows almost in its entirety east of the Mis- 

 souri river, is much nearer extinction than that of white 

 pine, hemlock, the yellow pines and the Pacific coast woods. 

 The beginning of the end is in sight for American hard- 

 woods. The hardwood timber area of the east is now con- 

 fined to small patches on the map in Northern New Hamp- 

 shire, Northern Vermont, the Adirondack region of New 

 York, and the heights of the Alleghanles in Pennsylvania. 

 Maryland and Virginia are well nigh exhausted, while West 

 Virginia is practically under complete operation today. The 

 magnificent hardwood forests of a century ago, that cov- 

 ered a large portion of Ohio. Indiana, Illinois, Southern Mich- 

 igan and Southern Wisconsin, are practically a legend, and 

 comparatively little virgin forest remains In the upper por- 

 tions of Michigan, Wisconsin, or the great states of Kentucky 

 and Tennessee. In fact, about all of the virgin forest re- 

 maining in this United States Is in the section of the coun- 

 try that we know as the Lower Mississippi Valley, and In 

 some of the heights of lands along the Lower Appalachian 

 range. 



This situation is well worthy of the consideration of this 

 association, if it would do its duty toward itself and future 

 generations. It is time that lumbermen became conservators 

 of the remaining hardwood forest area, and leave the minor 

 growth of the forest in such shape that It might recuperate 

 itself, and form the basis of a new forest for future genera- 

 tions. 



Again, it is time that the legislatures of the several states 

 be appealed to to enact laws whereby both the states and 

 Individuals might engage In reforesting abandoned lands 

 unfit for agriculture and only suitable for the regrowing of 

 timber. It has been demonstrated that this work Is per- 

 fectly practical for the state, and would be practical for 

 the individual did the state enact laws exempting from tax- 

 ation for a period of years lands that individuals might 

 undertake to reforest. 



In this work I would commend that this association and 

 Individual members thereof ally themselves with the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Association, and, with their practical knowl- 

 edge of forest conditions and needs, contribute to the sum 

 of knowledge necessary to carry out this great and most 



that a few years ago would not 

 have been deemed worthy of 

 handling for this purpose. Again 

 there are numberless small plants 

 being erected throughout the coun- 

 try, notably at mill points where 

 raw material is cheap, for the pro- 

 duction of small turned novelties, 

 spindles, dimension chair stock, 

 dowels and other minor articles of 

 hardwood, which formerly were cut 

 out of good lumber. 



desirable work. 



Reforestry in California. 



Even California is paying no lit- 

 tle attention to the growing of 

 trees. At Bedlands and Oak Glen 

 Park there have been established 

 large coniferous nurseries. One 

 ranch owner at Ford is planting 

 120,000 pine trees this season, and 

 another concern will plant an equal 

 number. It is planned during the 

 next few years to plant fully a half 

 million cone — bearing trees in this 

 section. It is said that very little 

 effort has yet been made in an at- 

 tempt to grow oak and other hard- 

 woods on the Pacific coast, and it 

 would seem that hardwoods should, 

 for the present at least, constitute 

 an important part in the reforestry 

 work of the Pacific coast. 



New Forestry Association. 



The newly organized Michigan 

 Forestry Association, the perma- 

 nent organization of which will be 

 perfected in July by a mammotlj 

 gathering at Mackinaw Island, sets 

 forth that its objects are to insti- 

 tute, promote and foster: 



1. A business-like and conser- 

 use and treatment of the 



forest resources of Michigan. 



2. The initiation and advance- 

 ment of legislation to this end in 

 this state, and such assistance as 

 can be rendered kindred legislation 

 in the Congress of the United 

 States, and the extension of prac- 

 tical forestry by all proper meth- 

 ods. 



a. The diffusion of knowledge 

 regarding conservation, manage- 

 ment and renewal of forests and 

 woodlots, and the relationship ol 

 reforestation to wood-working in- 

 dustri, s, the conservation of our 

 water power, the protection from erosion of the soil, and the main- 

 tenance of Michigan's reputation as a state remarkable for its beauty, 

 4. To aid in every possible waj thi .Michigan Forestry Commis- 

 sion in its work, and to act cordially with the American Forestrj 

 Association. 



The work of this association is well worthy the coiiperatioi 



of every citizen of the state of Michigan. Thornton A. Green ol 



Ontonagon is the provisional see rotary of the association 



M. M. WALL. 



