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boxes and crates which requires seven times as much wood as any 

 of the other industries and almost twice as much as all the others 

 combined. The average cost per M. for the 23 woods used in this 

 industry was $16.02; of white pine, native-grown, $15.60; im- 

 ported, $17.66. 



S. J. R. 



A Study of the Wood-Using Industries of Kentucky. By 

 Roger E. Simmons. Compiled in co-operation with the U. S. 

 Forest Service. 1910. Pp. 74. 



"No report could better open the eyes of the people at large, 

 and especially the business men of the State of Kentucky, to the 

 importance of the State's adopting a forest policy, than a work of 

 this character. When one notes that Kentucky each year con- 

 sumes 220,000,000 feet of her own forests in the further manu- 

 facture of wood into final form, and brings in from other States 

 191,000,000 feet additional, and that nearly $10,000,000 annually 

 is spent in payment for this raw material, he will realize the 

 magnitude and importance of the wood-using industries of the 

 State. Add to this the great army of men who are employed by 

 these industries, the enormous wealth which each year is brought 

 into Kentucky from the sale of the products turned out by them, 

 as well as the industrial prosperity which ensues from so great a 

 commercial activity, and the economic importance of perpetuating 

 these industries in Kentucky will be self-evident." 



"The lessons learned from the experiences of Indiana and Ohio 

 should, more than any other fact, convince Kentucky of the im- 

 mediate necessity of improving her forests. In 1900, Ohio, 

 Indiana and Illinois produced 25 per cent, of the hardwood of the 

 country. In 1908 their production of hardwood was only 12 per 

 cent, compelling their wood-using industries each year to seek, 

 more and more, new fields for their supply. 



"That the drain on the forests of Kentucky is being felt ma- 

 terially is shown by the fact that in 1907 the lumber cut was 912.- 

 980,000 feet while in 1908 the production was 658,539,000, a de- 

 crease of about 28 per cent. Again, in 1907 Kentucky ranked 

 first among the States as a producer of yellow poplar lumber, but 

 in 1908 she was reduced in rank to third place. With the disap- 

 pearance of the virgin forests, which each year in this State are 



