360 forestry Quarterly. 



success of the farmers. There also 97,000,000 acres covered with 

 heavy forests having commercial value for timber and logs for 

 saw mills, also hundreds of thousands of acres of timber lands in 

 other ports of the United States. Reforestation and conservation 

 of the vast resources are necessary to provide future generations 

 with timber and lumber supplies. The government is expending 

 large amounts of money every year to protect its forests from fires, 

 yet expert lumbermen say that more standing timber is destroyed 

 by flames annually than is converted into merchantable lumber by 

 the saw mills." 



No need of adding that the Congress refused to commit itself 

 to this daring program. 



A preliminary report by the Census Bureau on the distillation 

 of wood in the United States during the calendar year ending 

 December 31, 1908, shows a falling off of thirty per cent, over 

 the figures of 1907. 



Hardwood Distillation : 1908 1907 



Number of plants, 101 100 



Material : 



Beech, birch, maple, etc., cords 878,632 1,219,771 



Cost, $2,710,745 $3,824,669 



Products : 



Charcoal, bushels, 37,286,520 50,772,234 



Value $2,644,923 $3,838,392 



Crude alcohol, gallons, 6,285,678 7,741,645 



Value $1,084,223 $1,153,307 



Gray acetate, pounds, 108,098,846 1 33,374,941 



Value $1,636,825 $2,565,938 



Brown acetate, pounds, 1,586,441 8,152,848 



Value, $13,457 $94,446 



Iron acetate, gallons, 262,989 



Value, $25,024 



Oils, gallons, 57,829 382,959 



Value, $3,813 $9,296 



Softwood Distillation : 



Number of plants, 30 31 



Material : 



Longleaf pine, cords, 90,991 61,149 



Cost, $201,696 $210,604 



Douglas fir, cords, 974 



Cost, $4,581 



Mill waste, cords, 7,247 1,200 



Cost, $925 $240 



