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Yearbook of Agriculture 1949 



reports substantial progress in the 

 adoption of company programs work- 

 ing toward sustained yield. In 1937, 18 

 companies, with a production of 763,- 

 631,000 board feet a year, had adopted 

 measures leading to that goal. Since 

 then, 59 companies, with a yearly pro- 

 duction of nearly 2 billion board feet, 

 have started working toward continu- 

 ous forest production. The western pine 

 industry employs 90-some foresters. 



Encouragement is given such activi- 

 ties by the Tree Farm program, which 

 the association has sponsored in its re- 

 gion since 1942 and which has spread 

 to 6 States in the western pine area, 

 with 146 certified tree farms, compris- 

 ing 2,643,030 acres of privately owned 

 forest lands by October 1948. Inspec- 

 tion and certification of tree farms are 

 supervised by the association staff. 



In recent years, there has been a 

 marked tendency on the part of the in- 

 dustry to hold and acquire forest lands 

 to be placed under management for 

 growing forest crops. Employees of the 

 association have helped in the formula- 

 tion of practical plans for such long- 

 range programs. 



THE AMERICAN WALNUT MANUFAC- 

 TURERS ASSOCIATION, since 1944, has 

 encouraged widespread growth of wal- 

 nut trees in the area from which its 

 members derive their raw material. 

 The work is headed by a forester. 



The association has published a 

 booklet, Growing Walnut for Profit. 

 Industrial mills help collect walnuts, 

 which are supplied to State nurseries, 

 which, in turn, provide stratified wal- 

 nuts to farmers and others for planting. 

 State foresters in 15 States cooperate in 

 this program, and it is estimated that, 

 in 1948, up to 3 million more walnuts 

 were planted than normally would 

 have gone into the ground. The project 

 is promoted through newspaper and 

 radio publicity. Buyers of wood for 

 member mills also stress the advantages 

 of planting walnuts for future profit. 



THE CALIFORNIA REDWOOD ASSO- 

 CIATION has not established a separate 



forestry division, but it has helped 

 maintain close relationships between 

 redwood operators and agencies like 

 the State Division of Forestry and the 

 University of California, both relating 

 to forest practices and to research. 



The association reports definite im- 

 provement in forest practices, particu- 

 larly since 1935. 



THE APPALACHIAN HARDWOOD 

 MANUFACTURERS, INC., began a for- 

 estry program in 1945. Lumber manu- 

 facturers, coal operators, railroads, and 

 other timberland owners are members. 



Directed by a forester, the program 

 is concerned chiefly with forestry pro- 

 cedures for its members and with State 

 legislation favorable to better forest 

 practices in the Appalachian area. 



THE AMERICAN PAPER AND PULP 

 ASSOCIATION appointed a forestry 

 committee in 1938 to study the rela- 

 tionship of the industry to forestry, to 

 collect and analyze data relating to for- 

 est resources and their uses, and to 

 formulate the industry's views and rec- 

 ommendations with respect to any Fed- 

 eral forestry legislation. The formation 

 of the committee was prompted by a 

 special congressional committee inves- 

 tigation of the Nation's forest situation. 



Through the years the forestry com- 

 mittee undertook to assemble informa- 

 tion on forest-land ownership in the 

 pulp and paper industry and the char- 

 acter of cutting programs employed by 

 companies within the industry. The 

 committee has always advocated a pro- 

 gram of cooperation with Government 

 and self-regulation by industry, as 

 against Federal and State regulation of 

 industrial forest lands. 



To further better forestry practices 

 on all woodlands, five regional sub- 

 committees of the forestry committee 

 were formed in 1947. 



Pulp companies owned 14.8 million 

 acres of commercial timberland in 

 1945, and, probably, through subse- 

 quent acquisitions, as much as 17 mil- 

 lion acres in 1948. Additional acreage 

 is owned in fee in certain Canadian 



