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wcri' the only piost'iit practicable means of forest coiiser\atioii in 

 Wisconsin. He pointed to the fact that the Snell Bill for national 

 forest conservation carries slash burning regulations, and declared 

 that the leaving of young trees of ten inches and under o-n the 

 ground constitutes a grave menace to the timbered seeticfns of Wis- 

 consin because of the danger of fires. Slash and other clearing 

 refuse on 250,000 acres of land in Wisconsin threatens sonio such 

 terrible holocaust as visited Minnesota, he said. Fire protection 

 is the key to the whole situation, in his state^ he concluded. 



Previously Mr. Harrington reported that 280 forest fires in Wis- 

 consin during 1920 had cost ni)proxiniatoIy .$1,.500,000. 



Brush Disposal Is Costly 



Mr. Harder said tlie conclusions arrived at from the observations 

 at Xeopit are that it vrould be more costly to pile and burn brush 

 under the forestry method if applied to their own operations, but 

 that actual tests would have to be made by lumbermen in repre- 

 sentative districts io determine what the increased cost would 

 amount to. 



The government system, as Mr. Harder explained, is that "when 

 felling the timber, the sawyers fell first the hemlock trees and 

 brush them so that the tops are cut in fairly small pieces, which are 

 placed in large piles, as a basis for the hardwood tQps. So far as 

 possible, the plan contemplates that the hardwood trees shall be 

 felled ou the hemlock piles so that when their tops are cut off and 

 the brush cut down to small pieces, it will not be necessary to carry 

 the brush. We were unable to determine exactly to what extent 

 this is actually being done, but we noted many felled logs and trees 

 iu such position that their brush must have been carried to the hem- 

 lock piles. 



It was the opinion «»1' tin- luinbcnnen that this sclu'iiio for felling lianl- 

 woorts on hemloclv piles certainly is not practical in operations with whicli 

 they are familiar, autl would lead to considerahle cost if tlio brush has 

 to be carried. 



The inspection trip to Xeopit was made by President McCuUough, 

 John Boss, William Landon, Mr. Harder and Secretary-Manager 

 Swa II. 



Times Demand Advertising 



Because, as he said, lumber is coming into a iieriod "of the 

 severest competition which lii'.s existed for a number of years,'' 

 President McCuUough urged, both in his address as president ami 

 later in his report as chairman of the promotion bureau, that the 

 association expand its promotion efforts. "Hemlock is meeting fir 

 and yellow pine at closer quarters than ever before," he said. 

 Birch, maple and basswood are meeting red gum, oak and poplar 

 in the industrial factories of the Middle West and throughout the 

 nation, in a struggle- day -by day, which determines which will be 

 used. Their ([ualifies are such that to a large extent these hard- 

 woods are interchangeable. The decision to use our wood depends 

 upon constantly convincing the consumer that it has beauty or 

 service, which is superior to tliat of its competitor. • 



I thinli it would he a great iiiistalie to slacken our promotion and ad\fi-- 

 tislng efforts during this severe competitive period. We need the printed 

 page constantly explaining the hardness, streugtli. Iteanty and pliysical 

 characteristics of these northern woods daily to our possible customers. I 

 would like to si'c some plan worked out which will give the greatest pub- 

 licity to our uorthei'n woods during 1921, 



At the conclusion of a paragraph devoted to a review of coudi- 

 tions in the northern branch of the industry during 1920, President 

 McCuUough said that as a result of transportation troubles, labor 

 shortage, strikes, and finally the period of depression, the associa- 

 tion's shipments, as a whole, were about 2.5 per cent less than dor 

 ing 1919. 



One of the most interesting talks of the entire convention was 

 that delivered by R. B. Goodman at the morning session on "Inven- 

 tories." Mr. Goodman went very thoroughly over many mooted 

 questions as of interest to lumbermen and made them clear to the 

 minds of his audience. 



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