This publication is a summarization of the findings re- 

 sulting from New Hampshire's contributory project to the 

 Regional Research Project NEM-24, Marketing of Lumber 

 Produced by Sawmills in the Northeast. Cooperating or 

 participating in this regional project are Northeastern 

 States Agricultural Experiment Stations, and the North- 

 eastern Forest Experiment Station of the U. S. Forest 

 Service. 



Dr. Oliver P. Wallace is associate professor in the De- 

 partment of Forestry at the University of New Hampshire 

 and associate forester in the New Hampshire Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. 



October, 1962 



