70 C. A. SCHENCK. 



Germany could easily supply her commercial needs, without 

 any timber imports, for a great number of years, if she were 

 willing to reduce her forest capital as unscrupulously as the 

 United States of America are reducing theirs. 



Raphael Zon, in circular 159, Forest Service, comes to the 

 following conclusions: 



"Countries with about 100 acres or more of woodlands per 

 100 inhabitants produce more wood than they actually consume; 

 countries with 85 acres or less of woodlands per 100 inhabitants 

 produce less wood than they actually consume." 



The productivity of the forests in commodities other than wood 

 goods is illustrated in circular 171, Forest Service, as follows: 



"The National Forests in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific 

 Coast States afford summer ranges to over 12 per cent of the 

 cattle and 21 per cent of the sheep in the States in which they 

 lie. If this live stock were not fed in the forests during the 

 summer months it would be without natural forage during 

 the winter. For the East, .the number of forest-fed live stock 

 can not be given. But notably in the southern pine belt, and 

 in the southern mountains, live-stock owners, especially sm^all 

 holders, turn out their sheep, cattle and hogs in the forests 

 for the larger part of each year. 



That the existence of nearly all kinds of wild game depends 

 directly upon the conservation of the forest is well known. The 

 deer killed in six states alone in the Northeast represent each 

 year a food value of over $1,000,000. The raw furs exported 

 yearly from the United States are worth $7,000,000 to $8,000,000, 

 and raw furs worth in the aggregate still more are kept for 

 manufacture here. Most of these furs are taken from forest 

 animals. Relatively few kinds of freshwater fish, and mainly 

 those of inferior food value, will endure in streams fed from 

 denuded watersheds." 



