Young timber may be compared with young stock. A man 

 buys a bunch of calves not for their present value but for 

 their future value in beef and milk. Young trees represent a 

 future value which at the present time it is hard to estimate. 

 But with No. 4 boards selling at $19:00 a thousand, it is a 

 surety that the man who owns a nice stand of young timber 

 will not have to cut it to sell it, and the man who holds it 

 until it has matured will have a snug sum in his old age with 

 no cost of growing aside from the penny he invested in start- 

 ing each tree. Taxes, etc., would have to be paid anyway. 



The state which has been one of the forerunners in lumber- 

 ing and forestry matte; s, should follow the example set by 

 Pennsylvania and devote some of its rocky land which is not 

 good for agriculture to trees and in time have a revenue that 

 will surpass its mineral lands or any other asset it now has. 



U'hile there arc fire hemlocks in the United States, only two 

 are of any commercial importance, common hemlock and West- 

 ern hemlock. Of these tivo Western hemlock makes the better 

 lumber. 



The Philippine bureau of forestry uses a launch for service be- 

 tween islands. The l\ S. forest service employs several, both 

 on inland lakes and in salt water, in Alaska and Florida. 



Trunk manufacturers in Colorado are abandoning the usual 

 bass-^'ood and cottonwwod for the trunk box, and arc turning to 

 llngelmann spruce, which combines lightness, strength, and ease 

 of working. 



A randier Jias applied for tlie rental of 320 acres on the Pike 

 national forest, Colorado, to be used in connection with other 

 private land, for raising elk as a commercial venture. 



Tlie government has just sold 43,000 cords of cedar wood for 

 shingles from the Washington national forest. The shingle man- 

 ufactured from this wood, laid si.v inches to the weather, would 

 cover 2 l /2 square miles of roof. 



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