112 THE SCHOOL BOOK OP FORESTRY 



We need more forest experiment stations to 

 promote the production of more timber. Twenty 

 of our leading industries utilize lumber as their 

 most important raw material. Fifty-five differ- 

 ent industries use specialized grades and quality 

 of lumber in the manufacture of many products. 

 This use of lumber includes general mill work 

 and planing mill products, such as building 

 crates and boxes, vehicles, railroad cars, furni- 

 ture, agricultural implements and wooden ware. 



Our manufacturers make and use more than 

 two hundred and seventy-five different kinds 

 of paper, including newsprint, boxboard, build- 

 ing papers, book papers and many kinds of spe- 

 cialty papers. The forest experiment stations 

 would help solve the practical problems of these 

 many industries. They could work out methods 

 by which to maintain our forests and still turn 

 out the thirty-five to forty billion board 

 feet of lumber used each year. They are 

 needed to determine methods of increasing 

 our annual cut for pulp and paper. They are 

 necessary so that we can increase our annual out- 

 put of poles, pilings, cooperage and veneer. 



A forest experiment station is needed in the 

 southern pine belt. The large pine forests of 



