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older people. Signs pointing out that forests mean wages and business 

 are frequently seen in forest regions. The public is rapidly becoming 

 forestry minded. It is coming to appreciate that forests, through the 

 industries that are dependent upon them, mean payrolls, which in turn 

 affect trade, banking, transportation, and many other forms of busi- 

 ness. An aroused public sentiment may readily affect legislation. 



5. Growing of millions of trees in nurseries. This is probably the 

 most impressive feature of the forestry activities of many companies. 

 Tree nurseries have been established and maintained by a large num- 

 ber of industries to provide stock for planting areas that have been 

 denuded of natural reproduction by fire, severe cutting practices, or 

 from any other cause. Many companies have an added objective to 

 stimulate local interest in planting idle, abandoned, and barren lands 

 which are suitable only for growing timber. Many companies are 

 dependent upon farmers and other small woodlot owners to grow and 

 supply pulpwood, saw logs, and other raw materials for their in- 

 dustries. Nurseries have also been installed on an experimental basis 

 to determine costs and procedure. Many of these have proved to be 

 very successful. 



5. DEVELOPMENTS IN REDUCING WOODS AND SAWMILL WASTE 



Within recent years much progress has been made in reducing the 

 enormous wastage incident to the conversion of our primary forest 

 products, chiefly saw logs, into lumber and other usable forms. Among 

 measures adopted may be mentioned the following (some are con- 

 cerned exclusively with woods or sawmill waste, whereas others in- 

 volve both) : 



1. Installation of paper and fiber board mills to utilize woods and 

 sawmill waste, chiefly in the South and the Pacific Northwest. The 

 mills recently located in the Northwest utilize large amounts of saw- 

 mill waste. A large fiber plant at Laurel, Mississippi, uses great 

 quantities of southern pine mill waste. Many of the pulp mills, 

 notably in the South, utilize largely woods waste and small materials 

 which would otherwise be lost. 



2. Improvements in meeting consumers' demands at the source of 

 lumber supply. Many plants and factories are being installed in 

 connection with sawmills to supply automobile parts, implement and 

 machinery parts, chair and furniture parts, and many other supplies 

 and specialized forms which had previously been manufactured at 

 considerable distances from the sawmills. This has meant the reduc- 



