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Today timber imports into the British Isles is 

 Scottish Timber small compared to pre-war days. This is not due 

 and Forestry to wood substitutes but largely to the labor 

 situation in England. The use of native timber 

 in England and Scotland especially for pit props began during the war, 

 and has continued in a lesser degree, due to a realization of the possi- 

 bilities of such use, the cutting off of the French pit prop supply 

 from the Landes, and to the acute labor situation in England. The 

 Highland railways in 1914 carried about 15,000 tons per annum of 

 "home-grown"' timber products ; now they carry 404,000 tons, and at a 

 far higher freight rate. The Scotch requirements for pit props are 

 being met not only from Scotland but for England as well, from the 

 Highland forests. This new use of the Scottish forests is a great 

 stimulus to reforestation and general forestry practice ; broadly speak- 

 ing, something rather new in Scotland and England. 



Before the war only about 5 per cent of the home timber was used 

 in the coal mines : thinnings and props were allowed to lie and rot 

 in the woods as they would not pay for labor and freight, even though 

 there was free stumpage. J. D. G. 



Dunlap, J. Y. Home T'unbcr in England and Timber Supplies. Lumber, Dec. 

 27, 1920. 



The National City Bank is authority for the 

 Timber Imports statement that the exports of timber, lumber, and 

 Almost Equal other forest products from the United States for 

 to Exports 1920 are to be placed at 200 million dollars' 



worth, as compared with 70 million dollars' 

 worth annually exported during the war period. Canada's 1920 timber 

 exports will equal our own. In pre-war days our annual exports ran 

 about To million dollars' worth. The obvious reasons for this increase 

 are the rehabilitation demands of Europe, the temporary stoppage of 

 the Russian supply, and probably the fact of a large number of Amer- 

 ican-owned bottoms. Prior to the war Russia was our chief rival in 

 the lumber markets of the world, in 1913 her timber exports being 

 valued at 75 million dollars. Our timber and forest products are going 

 to Asia, Oceania, South America, and South Africa. Europe is taking 

 largely our oak and pitch pine lumber, having bought m the first eight 

 months of 1920 some 13 million dollars' worth. In spite of our large 

 export trade in lumber we are importing timber and timber products 



