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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



domestic production had increased to 13 percent and imports were 

 still only 6 percent of total requirements. 



The significant fact illustrated by figure 9 is the importance of 

 timber resources to our pulp and paper industry. Growth of domestic 

 sulphate production in competition with imports is accounted for by 

 the extension and adaptation of a pulping process to abundant wood 

 resources of the South, and it goes far toward demonstrating that with 

 an equally favorable raw-material situation domestic industry could 



-rr- 1 - TOTAL 



PULPWOOD 

 PULP AND 

 PAPER 



SPRUCE 



IMPORTED 



DOMESTIC 



1904 



1909 



SPRUCE PULPWOOD 

 (DOMESTIC) 



1914 



I SPRUCE PULPWOOD, 

 PULP AND PAPER 

 | (IMPORTED) 



1919 1923 '25 '27'28'29 



HEMLOCK PINES 



OTHER PULP 

 AND PAPER 



(I NCL. EXPORTS) 



FIGURE 8. Imports in relation to trends in pulpwood requirements spruce versus other species. Spruce 

 has dropped from 67 percent in 1904 to only 22 percent in 1929 of wood used in domestic production of 

 pulp, but still made up 70 percent of total requirements in 1929 compared with 80 percent in 1904. 



compete successfully in the mechanical and sulphite fields also. That 

 should be a sound objective, whether it means growing of the pulp- 

 wood species now preferred by industry or adapting the pulping 

 process to utilize other domestic woods, or both. 



Development of the domestic industry provides a market for timber 

 crops and employment for labor. Our present importation of the 

 equivalent of 7 million cords of wood annually is equal to a timber 

 crop from perhaps 7 million to 15 million acres, depending on growing 

 conditions, and these figures may be doubled by 1950. 



