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supplements the report. It is classified in the order corresponding 

 to the tabulated information. For example, Table XLIV, 

 gives information on match manufacturers, while under the same 

 heading- in the directory appear the names of the firms making 

 matches and buying the various woods listed. Similarly from the 

 "List of Uses of Woods," one can find commodities best suited for 

 the material he has to sell. Information concerning the industry 

 including the selected products can be ascertained from the table of 

 contents and then from thedirectory the names of the manufacturers 

 making them. 



The farmer, the timber owner, and the sawmill man will be 

 instructed by this report in the information it gives of the kinds of 

 wood the manufacturers use, in what form they want it, and approx- 

 imately the prices paid. It also gives the names and addresses of 

 the consumers. The manufacturers in turn are benefited in the 

 added opportunities for buying raw material and occasionally in 

 finding in the waste of other factories suitable material for making 

 their wares. The report may also suggest to manufacturers sub- 

 stitutes of cheaper woods for the more costly ones they are using, 

 besides pointing out the chief regional sources from which the 

 industries procure their raw materials. Dealers handling wooden 

 commodities in other States can learn what the Ohio manufacturers 

 have to sell, and those outside of Ohio who are in position to furnish 

 raw material can find what the manufacturers demand. The 

 bulletin also contains data useful to those concerned in the 

 work of outlining the policies of the State for forest protection and 

 development. 



FOREST IMPROVEMENT NECESSARY 



From the Census Report we learn that over 63,000 wage 

 earners in Ohio are dependent upon the wood-using industries and 

 the sawmills. These establishments, aside from the sale of the raw 

 material, add to the wealth produced in the State each year 

 $96,000,000. At present the home-grown timber is far short of the 

 two hundred million feet of lumber required for the maintenance of 

 the wood-working factories. Small tracts of valuable hardwoods are 

 still to be found in the western part of the State, but it will not be 

 many years before these have been consumed. The business men 

 of Ohio should therefore appreciate the economic importance of the 

 forests and lend every aid and encouragement to the work the State 

 is carrying on in protecting and developing them. 



Ohio first began to recognize the importance of forestry in 1885, 

 when the Legislature authorized a Bureau of Forestry. This was 

 largely due to the influence and work of the Ohio State Forestry 

 Society together with the assistance of the Ohio Horticultural Society, 



