SOLVING OUR FORESTRY PROBLEMS 115 



centre of the United States. Pennsylvania 

 spends $100,000,000 a year in importing lumber 

 which should be grown at home. The denuded 

 and waste lands at the headwaters of the Alle- 

 gheny River now extend over one-half million 

 acres. New Jersey is using more than twenty 

 times as much lumber as is produced in the state. 

 Ohio is a centre for wood manufacturing indus- 

 tries, yet her timber-producing possibilities are 

 neglected, as are those of other states needing 

 wood for similar purposes. 



European nations have spent large sums of 

 money in investigating forestry problems to 

 make timber producing economically feasible, 

 and have found that it paid. In this country, 

 our forest experiment stations will have to deal 

 with a timbered area twice that of all Europe, 

 exclusive of Eussia. That is why we shall need 

 many of these stations to help solve the many 

 questions of national welfare which are so de- 

 pendent upon our forests. 



