MASSACHUSETTS 



of people practically freezing to death while 

 wood in great quantities was rotting all about 

 on our hillsides. 



War conditions drove our people to burning 

 wood in their furnaces and fireplaces, and it 

 is believed many will continue to use more 

 firewood than heretofore as it has many ad- 

 vantages even over coal. Cordwood is really 

 a by-product of the forest. Great quantities 

 of wood for fuel should be available in all for- 

 est sections, as it is to the benefit of the forest 

 that improvement thinnings be carried on, 

 and whenever forest crops are being harvested 

 there are always the limbs, tops, and slabs 

 suitable for little else than cord wood. The 

 great hindrance to the use of wood for fuel in 

 the past has been the inconvenient form in 

 which it has been dealt. 



City people, and users in general, are de- 

 lighted to purchase wood cut into convenient 

 short sizes. They do not want four-foot 

 lengths. Every conceivable kind of wood can 

 be used if cut into small sizes. Why should 

 we not be able to utilize every stick of wood 

 possible for fuel in our more thickly populated 

 sections of New England? In other sections 

 there should be more definite plans for making 

 it into charcoal, or shipping it to brick facto- 

 ries, or using it in other ways. One is im- 

 pressed in this respect when in the Black For- 

 est country abroad. Everything there is util- 

 ized, and there is no waste. 



NEW ENGLAND FOREST POLICIES 



Each of the New England States has its 

 forest policies, and is feeling its way toward 

 greater accomplishments. Much more has 

 been done than most people realize. Massa- 



