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rather than outside bark, and that an actual determination of bark 

 thickness be made for each site involved. 



G. A. P. 



Since so many Canadian and American for- 

 British esters are engaged in securing lumber supplies 



Timber for the allied armies, it will be of interest to note 



and under what regulations, issued by the Army 



War Council, these supplies are secured in Great 



Britain. 

 The Standing Timber Act prohibits the sale of timber without a gov- 

 ernment permit, so as to prevent speculative sales for driving up prices. 

 This is not intended to prevent sales of real estate with timber, nor to 

 prevent those who are prepared to institute lumbering operations, and 

 no permit is required for purchases by a single buyer not exceeding 

 $1,500 for three months. 



The Home-grown Timber Prices Order fixes maximum prices for 

 ordinary qualities ; other assortments to be proportionate in accordance 

 with usual trade customs. All persons engaged in purchase or sale of 

 converted timber grown in Great Britain are required to furnish par- 

 ticulars of their business. 



The prices run from 75 cents to $1 per cubic foot for spruce and 

 Scotch pine and from 87 cents to $1.12 for larch f. o. b., the lowest for 

 scantling, the highest for half-inch boards. In the case of town yards 

 and mills, an increase of these prices by 25 per cent for sales of 50 

 cubic feet and over, and by 50 per cent for sales of less than 50 cubic 

 feet, free delivery. 



Quarterly Journal of Forestry, October, 1917, pp. 288-291. 



UTILIZATION, MARKET, AND TECHNOLOGY 



One hardly thinks of Spain as a paper manu- 



Paper facturer, yet, although 3,000 to 4,000 tons of me- 



Making chanical pulp and 10,000 tons of chemical pulp 



in are imported, of the 28,000 tons of paper used 



Spain she manufactures around 15,000 tons. There 



would be, it is asserted, sufficient wood in Spain 



to make the import unnecessary if it were accessible, transportation 



especially from the silver fir and Scotch pine forests of the Pyrenees 



