SOLVING OUR FORESTRY PROBLEMS 113 



Dixieland have been shaved down from 130,000,- 

 000 acres to 23,500,000 acres. In that region 

 there are more than 30,000,000 acres of waste 

 forest lands which should be reclaimed and de- 

 voted to the growing of trees. Eastern and 

 middle western manufacturing and lumbering 

 centres are interested in the restoring of the 

 southern pine forests. During the last score of 

 years, they have used two-thirds of the annual 

 output of those forests. In another ten to fifteen 

 years home demand will use most of the pine cut 

 in the South. The East and Middle West will 

 then have to rely mostly on the Pacific Coast 

 forests for their pine lumber. 



The Lake States need a forest experiment 

 station to work out methods by which the white 

 pine, hemlock, spruce, beech, birch and maple 

 forests of that section can be renewed. The Lake 

 States are now producing only one-ninth as much 

 white pine as they were thirty years ago. These 

 states now cut only 3,500,000,000 feet of all kinds 

 of lumber annually. Their output is growing 

 smaller each year. Wisconsin led the United 

 States in lumber production in 1900. Now she 

 cuts less than the second-growth yield of Maine. 

 Michigan, which led in lumber production before 



