without tremendous loss to the owners. Nor can the 

 raw material, bulky as it is, be brought to them for 

 any great distance. They must have a continuous 

 local supply, such as can be furnished only by a 

 growing forest. 



These mills use only a few species of our forest 

 trees, and by no means the most abundant species. 

 The only possible way in which they can be perpetuat- 

 ed is through careful and skilled management. These 

 pulpwood forests will not renew themselves of them- 

 selves any more than will a wheat crop. They must 

 be planted and cultivated. Yet absolutely nothing is 

 being done. 



Surely the perpetuation of this business is well 

 worth while. It pays hundreds of thousands of dol- 

 lars in wages, produces millions of dollars worth of 

 products and gives us an accessible supply of paper. 



The following address to the Paper Manufacturers 

 Association by the secretary of the U. S. Agricultural 

 Department throws some rather authoritative light on 

 the subject. Mr. Merideth says : 



"The United States is today facing the most critical 

 pulp and paper situations in its history. Of these 

 the newsprint situation is the most serious. Present 

 demands, abnormal though they may seem, are merely 

 an incident in the rapidly growing normal demand for 

 ne.wsprint paper. 



"Today we are dependent upon other countries for 

 the equivalent of two-thirds of the pulpwood, pulp, 

 or newsprint w^hich goes into American newspapers. 

 Our newsprint industry is concentrated largely in 

 New England, New York, and the Lake States. I am 



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