OF OHIO IS 



lands heretofore non-productive; and third, a constantly growing 

 supply of timber at home would benefit the wood-using- factories and 

 other industries of the State. 



Equitable taxation of forest lands and fire protection are prob- 

 ably the most important factors in the practice of forestry and in 

 influencing the success of a State wide forest policy. The late 

 Constitutional Convention considered the subject of forest taxation 

 in Ohio and adopted an amendment permitting- the enactment of 

 laws separately classifying- forest lands for taxable purposes. This 

 will doubtless be followed in the near future by the Legislature 

 establishing a system of timber land assessment based on the income 

 or yield. 



Considerable interest has been shown in the subject of the 

 State adopting a policy of fire protection for Ohio timberlands and 

 it is believed that the necessary legislation providing- for it will soon 

 follow. It is no less imperative for the woodlot State to control 

 forest fires than for the timbered State. This policy does not 

 entail the provision of sufficient funds for fire fig-hting-, but the 

 maintenance of an organized fire patrol and fire observation stations 

 throughout the danger season. The experience of other States has 

 proved this system more economical not only in fig-hting- fires but in 

 lessening property loss. It was to encourag-e the States to recog- 

 nize the importance of such measures that Congress enacted Section 

 2 of the Weeks Law, providing- Federal aid for any State that 

 established and -actively maintained a paid forest fire org-anization. 

 A number of the States have availed themselves of this opportunity 

 with generally gratifying- results. 



KINDS OF WOOD 



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Table I brings together all woods purchased by the manu- 

 facturers according- to species, irrespective of their use, and listed 

 in the order of their amounts. There are sixty of them, all promi- 

 nent in the lumber market. Eight grew in foreign countries. They 

 are: Mahogany, Spanish cedar, Circassian walnut, padouk, English 

 oak, teak, ebony, and rosewood, and they are all hig-h-priced. It is 

 interesting to note the larg-e amounts of western wood that the Ohio 

 manufacturers demanded. Seven came from forests of the Pacific 

 Coast States, amounting- to more than 14,000,000 feet. Douglas fir 

 was the principal one, followed by sug-ar pine and western white 

 pine, which were imported to compete with Michigan and Minnesota 

 white pine. Others from the same region reported in quantities of 

 less than 1,000,000 feet were: Redwood, western red cedar, western 

 white pine and Sitka spruce. Of the shipped-in material the southern 



