UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 FOREST SERVICE 



11/30/14 



White pine arc 1 , yellow pine are the needs most used 

 for V'xes, and each contributes more than a "billion feet to 

 the box industry annu&lly. 



The annual cut of British Columbia timber is ap- 

 prrximately 2 billion feet. There are 420 mills and 790 

 logging .camps in the province, employing about 60,000 men. 



The Massachusetts forestry association offers as 

 a prize the planting of fty acres of white pine, to the 

 tnwn which gains first place in a contest for town forests 



The Boise national fore 



t in Idaho had 30 fires 



during the past summer, yet 28 were held down to less than 

 10 acres, and of these 15 were less than one-quarter of an 

 acre. The supervisor says this success was due to a look- 

 out tower, and to efficient telephone and heliograph service 



Because of the war, English manufacturers and con- 

 sumers of wood pulp have been caused considerable uneasiness 

 Production is c ?.t a standstill in the countries at war, and 

 in ITorv/ay and Sweden, principal sources of supply, mills 

 hc.ve bean greatly hampered because; of a lack of coal rnd nf 

 chemicals, England has practically no domestic sources of 

 pulp, 



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