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Wisconsin, now harvests a crop of white pine 

 that is 50 per cent, smaller than that of Massachu- 

 setts. Experts believe that a forest experiment 

 station in the Lake States would stimulate pro- 

 duction so that enough lumber could be produced 

 to satisfy the local demands. 



Not least in importance among the forest 

 regions requiring an experiment station are the 

 New England States and northern and eastern 

 New York. In that section there are approxi- 

 mately 25,000,000 acres of forest lands. Five 

 and one-half million acres consist of waste and 

 idle land. Eight million acres grow nothing but 

 fuel-wood. The rest of the timber tracts are not 

 producing anywhere near their capacity. New 

 England produces 30 per cent, and New York 50 

 per cent, of our newsprint. Maine is the leading 

 state in pulp production. New England imports 

 50 per cent, of her lumber, while New York 

 cuts less than one-half the timber she annu- 

 ally consumes. 



Another experiment station should be pro- 

 vided to study the forestry problems of Penn- 

 sylvania, southern and western New York, Ohio, 

 Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware. At one 

 time this region was the most important lumber 



