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be the times of real timber famine and on its edge we already 

 stand. 



The longer we delay the beginnings of this timber crop, the 

 further off will be the harvesting and the greater the famine's 

 severity. To tide it over we shall probably use less wood we 

 are already using less wood and we shall probably import 

 much timber from the tropics. But our mainstay, our only 

 permanent solution to the problem of our wood supply, will 

 have to come from our own forests domestic wood grown 

 and protected under forestry principles. 



