CHOICE CTf species FOR USE IN PLANTATIONS OF PULP 

 AND PAPER COMPANIES IN THE NORTH ^ 



Bv H. B. Shepard, M. F. 

 Forester. Eastern Maniifactiirlnq Co., Bangor. Maine 



In making definite plans for. the establishment of commercial pulp- 

 wood plantations the ciuestion of the choice of the species to be planted 

 is one of the most important. Pulp and paper companies of necessity 

 depart at once from economic forestry in so far as the greatest financial 

 yield from the ground is concerned and go immediately into specialized 

 forestry, the object of which is to produce pulpwood species. In other 

 words, while perhaps a purely theoretical forester would recommend 

 certain species for certain sites because of the greater possible financial 

 return, the forester managing pulpwood lands must produce a species, 

 if at all possible, primarily adapted to pulp manufacture. The problem, 

 therefore, is to produce on a given area of land, the maximum possible 

 yield of a species that will meet the needs of the pulp mill for which the 

 lands are supposed to furnish raw material. 



Throughout the North W^oods two principal kinds of pulp are manu- 

 factured, namely, ground wood and sulphite. There is also, to some 

 extent an industry manufacturing sulphate pulp and soda pulp, but 

 these two processes are of minor importance compared with the ground 

 wood and sulphite processes and will not be considered in this report. 

 If the pulp and paper industry is to be kept alive and commercially im- 

 portant in the north woods it will be through the ground wood and 

 sulphite processes. 



Furthermore, wood which will produce good sulphite economically 

 is also adapted to ground wood and conversely, so the two can be con- 

 sidered under one head and discussed together. 



It is not the purpose of this paper to call attention to the dwindling 

 supply of naturally grown pulpwood and the need for early steps 

 toward artificial replacement, further than to state that already several 

 pulp and paper companies are committed to more or less extensive 

 planting programs and are merely endeavoring to work out details of 

 procedure. 



^ Read before the Xew England Section, Society of American Foresters, March 

 12, 1921. 



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