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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



of the scientific crusade to decrease the wastage of wood sub- 

 stance, whether it be caused by decay, poor mill practice, or by 

 the waste that comes from using species poorly adapted to a 

 particular purpose, or from any other preventable cause. Among 

 other things, the laboratory is learning ways of making stur- 

 dier, more efficient crates and boxes, to prevent the very con- 



LONG HAUL FROM MAIN LUMBER PRODUCING REGIONS 

 TO MAIN CONSUMING REGION 



THIS REGION 

 CUT 3&% OF OUR. 

 LUMBER IN 1926 



THIS REGION 



CONSUMED 44% 

 OF OUR LUMBER 



IN 1926 



THE LONG HAUL 



Our remaining forest are so far from the great centers of supply that each year 

 we pay an enormous freight bill for lumber alone. 



Each year the south produces a smaller per cent, of our lumber and the long 

 haul grows longer. 



siderable waste that comes from breakage and from using two 

 boards where one will do. They are finding uses for tree species 

 that, in the past, industry has discarded as useless or inferior. 

 They are speeding up nature in many ways, especially in sea- 

 soning. For while nature requires one to two years in which 

 to season boards and often makes a rather bad job of it, these 



