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private company. The amount of balsam obtainable in the near future 

 remains in doubt until the progress of the everywhere-prevalent fun- 

 gous and insect diseases is determined. If the hardwoods could be 

 utilized, their removal might result in a much larger portion of the 

 young spruce reaching merchantable size. The possibility of utilizing 

 white birch for pulpwood and yellow birch for railway ties is being 

 investigated by the forester of the Laurentide Company. However, 

 the whole question of the effect of the removal of biologically dominant 

 hardwoods in stimulating the growth of suppressed conifers is still 

 largely in the condition of theoretical discussion, and Dr. Howe's ad- 

 dress closed with an earnest plea for definite experimentation in the 

 various problems of forest regeneration in the north woods. Extensive 

 studies of an intensive nature into conditions controlling forest repro- 

 duction on the cut-over lands are necessary before reasonably reliable 

 predictions of future pulpwood supplies can be made, and such reliable 

 predictions must be made possible before the newsprint price contro- 

 versy can be settled on an equable basis. 



Empire State Forest Products Association Meeting 



The report of the proceedings of the twelfth annual meeting of 

 the Empire State Forest Products Association, held at Utica in No- 

 vember, 1917, calls attention to a new phase in the forestry movement 

 which is significant, namely, the employment of a technical forester by 

 a group of timberland owners who are at the same time manufacturers. 



It is true the National Lumbermen's Association has the priority in 

 employing technical men to further their business, but we think we are 

 not mistaken in believing their activity was used in developing markets, 

 while the forester of the Forest Products Association appears to have 

 his attention mainly directed to the woods end of the business, to real 

 forestry work. A similar development may be noted in Canada with 

 the formation of the woodland section of the Canadian Pulp and Paper 

 Association, which has the same object in view and may eventually 

 employ a technical forester. 



The advent of Prof. A. B. Recknagel in this position seems to have 

 given a new impetus to the efforts of the association, which in the 

 previous eleven years of its existence have left hardly any impression. 

 In the present report Recknagel merely clears the decks for action by 

 canvassing the conditions of the membership of the association as to 

 their ownership of timberlands and interests. It appears that nearly 

 1.4 million acres are represented in the association, 61 per cent of 



