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themselves, and such areas should be defined, protected, and exempted 

 from all taxes until they may be incorporated in the National or State 

 Forest Reserve. 



The lumbermen are so conversant with this phase of our problem 

 that extended remarks here would be without purpose. I only wish to 

 suggest that all owners of cut-over lands may add to their value and 

 attractiveness for future use, whether by themselves or other persons, 

 if ten acres on each quarter section be fenced and reforested. The 

 aggregate of such wood lots would be large enough to exert a favorable 

 influence on the climate, provide shade, fuel, building material, etc. 

 Such reforestation would in other ways contribute greatly to the value 

 and desirability of the remaining lands for grazing or other purposes. — 

 Cut-Over Lands, March, 1919. 



Hardwood Log Situation Improving in Indiana 



The log situation has greatly improved during the past few weeks, 

 and many of the hardwood mills that were closed down a month or 

 two ago are in operation again. It is expected, as the weather condi- 

 tions in the South improve, more logs will be received by the hardwood 

 mills. While the quality of logs received here is very good, the prices 

 are unusually high — in fact, the highest ever known — and lumbermen 

 are not expecting them to get any cheaper this year or next. 



There are a few good lumber tracts left standing in southern Indiana, 

 but the owners are holding them for fabulous prices and in many in- 

 stances refuse to sell at all. Few Indiana logs have been received at 

 the local mills for the past year. Maley and Wertz. hardwood lumber 

 manufacturers of Evansville, bought up a few tracts of Indiana timber 

 land last year, but most of these tracts have been worked up into logs. 

 While the timber supply along Green and Barren rivers, in western 

 Kentucky, has been greatly diminished during the past few years, there 

 is still some timber standing in remote places, and a raft of logs is 

 brought in from that section occasionally. — Lumber, May 5. 1919. 



Lumber Problem in France 



In 1914 France had 24,000,000 acres of timber and produced annually 

 6,700,000 cubic meters of lumber and 16,000.000 cubic meters of fire- 

 wood. This was more firewood than France consumed and about half 

 the lumber it needed. At that time France imported approximately 

 6,000,000 cubic meters of lumber, of the value of $34,000,000. Before 



