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carelessness and injustice of this article 

 were clearlv shown in an editorial in 

 American Foiiestry for December, 1910. 

 We do not care to traverse the ground now, 

 but in view of the fact that Senator Car- 

 ter's article has evidently been taken seri- 

 ously in a quarter that should have been 

 better informed, we call attention to two 

 facts the restriction put by Congress upon 

 the manner of expending the appropria- 

 tions, and the comparatively insignificant 

 amount which was really expended for lec- 

 tures, and for the necessary educational 

 work' done by the department. It will be 

 worth while for members of the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association to read the 

 article referred to in connection with Mr. 

 Townsend's report. It is on page 735 of 

 this magazine for December, 1910. 



A resolution adopted by the association 

 approved and promised support to the For- 

 est Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis- 

 consin, called the attention of the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin to its great opportunity 

 for establishing a school of forest utiliza- 

 tion, and urged upon Congress the need 

 of developing more highly the work of this 

 branch of the Forest Service to enable it 

 "to take up at once the many vital prob- 

 lems now confronting the lumberman, the 

 solution of which will result in such great 

 benefit to the whole nation." Another 

 resolution opposed the reciprocity agree- 

 ment with Canada on the ground that it 

 singles out for reduction of tariff the pro- 

 ducts of the soil, both forest and agricul- 

 tural. 



The officers and executive board elected 

 are: President, W. B. Townsend; vice- 

 presidents, W. B. Delaney and C. E. Ritter; 

 treasurer. C. M. Crawford; R. M. Carrier, 

 Clinton Crane. W. A. Gilchrist, F. F. Fee, 

 J. H. Himmelberger, C. H. Lamb, John W. 

 Love, G. M. W. Buehrmann, J. W. Oakford, 

 A. ri. Ransom, W. M. Ritter, R. H. Vansant, 

 William Wilms. There were also chosen 

 an executive grading commission of four- 

 teen, twenty-one state vice-presidents, and 

 state directors for seventeen states. The 

 attendance was 368, the largest in the ten 

 years' history of the association. 



Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufact- 

 urers 



The Northern Hemlock and Hardwood 

 Manufacturers' Association held its second 

 annual meeting in Milwaukee, January 31. 

 Among other subjects in his annual report, 

 the secretary, R. S. Kellogg, discussed the 

 need of more complete utilization of pro- 

 duct, declaring that there are possibilities 

 yet undreamed of in all kinds of timber. 

 Referring to the work already done by the 

 United States Forest Service and the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin, he asked why the 

 state of Wisconsin should not be requested 

 to provide at the university a school of 

 forest utilization, where men can be tech- 

 nically trained in the manufacture of for- 

 est products. On this point he said: "The 

 laboratory studies, investigates, invents and 

 discovers. The school teaches men bow to 



apply scientific principles to the problems 

 of production. Wisconsin has no need for 

 a school in which to train foresters: there 

 are plenty of such schools already in ex- 

 istence, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. 

 They should be strengthened and made 

 more efficient, not weakened, through the 

 multiplication of small schools. But there 

 is no college or university in Wisconsin 

 or in any other state to which we can send 

 a man for thorough instruction in the 

 manufacture of forest products. The for- 

 estry schools teach us how to grow timber. 

 Is It any less important that we should be 

 taught how to utilize it? It is likely that 

 the present session of the legislature will 

 be asked to establish a forest school at 

 the university. Should we not grasp the 

 opportunity before it is too late to secure 

 instead the school that is by far the most 

 needed, a school of forest utilization? 

 Would it not be well for us to have our 

 legislative committee present this view to 

 the governor, the legislature and the uni- 

 versity, and for us to ask other state or- 

 ganizations to join us in our efforts to 

 make the most of our timber resources?" 



Thornton A. Green reported for the for- 

 est fire committee, reviewing the work of 

 the Lake States Forest Fire Conference and 

 the formation of the Northern Foi'est Pro- 

 tective Association. 



William L. Hall, chief of the division of 

 products of the United States Forest Serv- 

 ice, made a comparison between the in- 

 crease in population and the increase in 

 lumber production which was enlightening. 

 He said: "In 1880 the lumber production 

 was 18,000,000,000 feet. In 1890 the in- 

 crease was 31.5 per cent. In the decade 

 from 1890 to 1900 the increase was 47 

 per cent, and between 1900 and 1910 the 

 increase was 27 per cent, representing a 

 production of 44,484,000,000 feet. The total 

 gain in these thirty years was 146 per cent. 

 The population of the couutrv in 1880 was 

 50,000,000; in 1890 it was 63,000,000, repre- 

 senting a growth of 25.5 per cent, and in 

 1900 it was 76,000,000, showing a growth 

 of 21 per cent; and in 1910 it was 92,000,000, 

 showing an increase of 21 per cent. The 

 total increase in population for the thirty 

 years has been 83 per cent, as against 146 

 per cent for the increase in lumber pro- 

 duction. 



Sawmill capacity apparently has also in- 

 creased to a large extent. We do not know 

 how much the capacity of the mills ex- 

 ceeded actual production in previous de- 

 cades. Taking the figures for 1909, I have 

 studied this subject with reference to two 

 states, Louisian and W^ashington. In Louis- 

 iana 383 mills out of a total of 658 reported 

 their capacity as well as their actual pro- 

 duction. In that state actual production 

 amounts to only 62 per cent of the rated 

 capacity of the mills. In the state of 

 Washington the actual production was 

 somewhat lower, amounting to 51 per cent 

 of the capacity of the mills. With such 

 a margin of capacity over actual produc- 

 tion it is easy to see how strong is the 

 tendency toward increase of production. 



