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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



October 25, 1920 



LONG-KNIGHT 



LUMBER COMPANY 



WALNUT- HARDWOODS 



Veneers 



Mahogany, American Walnut, Quartered White Oak 

 Manufacturers and Wholesalers 



Indianapolis, Indiana 



(Coiitiinicd from page 3-J) 



That would mean I billion feet of ripe timber saved 

 each year. It would save one year's supply every fourth 

 year. It would prolong by 25 per cent the timber reserve 

 — the forest insurance assets — of the wood-using indus- 

 tries. To accomplish that by planting new forests and 

 grow^ing new timber will require annually almost half a 

 million acres, a cash outlay of some 1 million dollars 

 followed by 80 to 1 00 years of upkeep and protection. 

 Furthermore, in the working out of the forest problem, the 

 most critical times will come in the period between the 

 exhaustion of the present forests and the maturity of new 

 forests. The possible saving annually of 1 billion feet of 

 timber on the stump is worth looking into and the wood 

 dependent industry that doesn't see it is blind to its own 

 interests and to its opportunities. 



Without minimizing in any degree the importance of 

 forest production, the field of conservation by better 

 utilization stands out therefore as an intensely practical 

 means of accomplishing immediate results in reducing 

 the drain upon the timber we already have — timber pro- 

 duced in the course of hundreds of years of growth and 

 renewable only in the same way. Immediate steps towards 

 forest production are needed to provide timber for the 

 future; conservation by better utilization accompanied by 

 adequate forest protection is needed to keep timber be- 

 hind your factories and to bridge the critical gap of an 

 intervening shortage which already impends. 



This organization now in process of formation has 

 before it this great field of possibilities for service to itself 

 and to its customers — the public. Once thoroughly or- 

 ganized with all wood-using industries represented, the 

 field could be critically and intelligently surveyed and a 

 definite program drawn along those lines promising great- 

 est return. That program will necessarily be one of re- 

 search — research in the sense of collecting and 

 co-ordinating information w^hich, although novif available, 

 is so widely disseminated as to prevent intelligent and 

 constructive application and research of the more inten- 

 sive kind which seeks to yield new information needed in 

 developing the most productive measures of conservation 

 by better utilization. 



Every year our forest principal is being reduced use- 

 lessly by some 4 or 5 billion feet destroyed by fire and 

 other natural agencies. This loss, of course, should be 

 reduced to a minimum, and while it possibly does not 

 come under the category of conservation by better utili- 

 zation, it is a source of loss that should have the active at- 

 tention of every industry using or dependent upon wood. 



There is undoubtedly a great volume of wood which 

 goes into the waste heap at various wood-using factories 

 which is subject to salvage through some sort of a wood 

 waste exchange or clearing house of information estab- 

 lished by the industries themselves. This would lead un- 

 questionably to much material, which is now scrapped, 

 (Continued on page 45) 



