404 Forestry Quarterly. 



If we assume one-third of this value to represent the stumpage 

 values, ten years will see the exhaustion of this resource. Such 

 deductions and speculations, however, the author does not indulge 

 in ; but he gives a few common words of advice as to forest 

 management, which would not lead far in securing application. 

 Tlie selection forest with improvement fellings is recommended 

 for hardwoods, and the strip system for the pines, with a width 

 of strips not to exceed 400 feet, which width would be really 

 not commendable. B. E. F. 



Forest Products, 1911- No. 2, Lumber, Lath and Shingles; 

 No. 8, Cross Ties Purchased ; No. 9, Poles Purchased. Bureau 

 of the Census, Washington, 1913; also Bulletin on Production of 

 Veneers, 191 1. 



These statistics of consumption of forest products are gathered 

 in co-operation with the Forest Service. It is needful to point 

 out that they are deficient and the unwary is apt to deduce wrong 

 conclusions, for, since the data are gathered by correspondence, 

 they fall even more short of the truth than the Census figures, 

 which are gathered directly by Agents, and there is no basis 

 given for judging the relative value of these data. The reporter 

 admits this, and then proceeds to discuss the figures as if they 

 were really correct. 



Perhaps the most complete Census was that of 1909, when the 

 lumber cut from 48,112 mills was reported at 44^ billion feet, 27 

 per cent, above that of 1899 as ascertained by the Census. The 

 report for 191 1 has only 28,107 mills, reporting a cut of 37 bil- 

 lion feet, but there is no reason for believing that there is such 

 a reduction in mills and cut. On the contrary, we are safe in as- 

 suming an average increase per annum of at least 2^ per cent, 

 making the cut in 191 1 around 47, and for the present year a 

 full 50 billion feet, which may be assumed the decennial average. 

 And there is no question that the cut will rise still further before 

 the real decline in wood consumption begins, so long as there is 

 still virgin timber available in hands of small owners, so that the 

 end of supplies — which, of course, will never quite occur — figured 

 by the Bureau of Corporations as 2800 billion feet will come 

 much sooner than the 60 years v/hich a division of the present cut 

 into supplies suggests. 



