238 ILLINOIS STATE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 



farmer uses a considerable quantity of lumber for farm 

 buildings, and the amount of wood produced and con- 

 sumed on farms has been made the subject of a special 

 study, some of the results of which will be given in the 

 paper on farm woodlots. This leaves a long list of special 

 uses to be investigated, such as in the manufacture of re- 

 frigerators, school equipment, handles, wagons and farm 

 implements, cabs and other vehicles. 



If you saAv the frame of a certain make of popular 

 cab you would understand better why the ' ' thinking fel- 

 low" calls that variety the frame is built in Chicago 



or Detroit of second growth Argansas ash, every piece of 

 which is tested carefully for strength before being used. 

 In connection with the use of ash for sporting goods you 

 may be interested in knowing that the American record 

 for the javelin throw of 203 feet, 9y 2 inches was won by 

 Milton Angier of the University of Illinois at the Drake 

 relay carnival, and that these javelins are manufactured 

 in Urbana of Indiana and Illinois ash, under the supervi- 

 sion of Coach Harry Gill. This same firm turns out the 

 discus, the maple for which comes largely from Wis- 

 consin and Michigan. 



Thus wood is a material with which we can not well dis- 

 pense. We can not afford to reduce our standards of liv- 

 ing in this country by dwarfing our use of wood to the 

 125 board feet per capita of Europe. In spite of sub- 

 stitution for wood along many lines we are constantly 

 going to need more of this basic commodity. The only 

 way to insure against a shortage is to grow more of it 

 now, on our three million acres of farm woodlots in Illi- 

 nois, on our undrained bottomlands and on our other idle 

 and waste land. The whole question centers back in the 

 right use of land, the devotion of a lot of it, which is 

 just on the margin between profit and loss, to timber 

 growing. 



April 27, 1923. 



