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the intensive manufacture of hardwoods. This Oval 

 Wood Dish Corporation plant is not only one of the 

 largest and most modern of its kind, but it is backed by 

 a supply of standing hardwoods which will last for at 

 least 30 years. A reasonable degree of permanency is, 

 of course, necessary for an expensive plant of this kind, 

 and in the Adirondacks was found the necessary supply of 

 birch, beech and maple which justified the heavy invest- 

 ment made. This company started in a small way in 

 Michigan many years ago, the management passing along 

 from father to son with a steady expansion to the pres- 

 ent large dimensions. 



One is surprised to find such a large manufacturing 

 enterprise in the heart of the Adirondacks, and this feel- 

 ing of amazement is strengthened on going through the 



themselves, but to the forester the most striking thing 

 is that they are converting the Adirondack hardwoods, 

 the profitable removal of which has always been a dif- 

 ficult problem, into millions of articles which find use in 

 thousands of homes. 



Over the hills a few miles away is another large timber 

 holding and operation devoted to the manufacture of 

 hardwood lumber. This Emporium Lumber Company 

 tract and mill also found in the Adirondacks, after years 

 of cutting in Pennsylvania, a supply ample in amount 

 and suitable as to quality for their requirements. Here 

 also much thought has been given to practical utilization 

 and to the protection and regeneration of cut-over lands. 

 One of the best known and most competent lumbermen- 

 foresters in the United States said, after visiting the prop- 



PLANT.ATION OF .SCOTCH PINE NEAR AMPERSAND POND, SANTA CLARA COMPANY. THIS COMPANY HAS 

 FOR MANY YEARS BROUGHT ITS DRIVE DOWN THE RAQUETTE AND MANUFACTURED SPRUCE LUMBER 

 IN A MILL AT THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE ON THE SHORE OF RAQUETTE LAKE. THIS MILL IS A MODEL 

 OF ITS KIND AND SIZE, WITH A WIDE REPUTATION FOR ECONOMY AND A RECORD FOR OUTPUT. 



plant. Here is found the complete utilization which 

 means actual conservation of forest resources. In an 

 overmature forest which is past its prime, logging is done 

 as closely and to the smallest sizes which it is possible to 



'-use. At the mill these logs, despite the large percentage 

 of defects in some cases, are converted into products 

 which include lumber, clothes pins, oval-cut dishes, ve- 

 neer stock for many classes of stapled dishes, boxes, and 

 various novelties. Practically nothing is wasted, because 

 all of the sound wood from blocks and veneer logs is 



'converted into usable products, and the defective or 

 waste pieces find ready market for fuel. The processes 

 and almost humanlike machines which produce the va- 

 ried assortment of wooden-ware dishes are a story in 



erty and talking with the officials of this company, that 

 the plans they are quietly making and the opportunities 

 which they expect to develop, because of the advantages 

 and size of their holdings, give promise of becoming one 

 of the largest and most successful forestry projects in the 

 state, and with the policy contemplated continuous pro- 

 duction on the same area is feasible and assured. 



What does all of this mean to the forester? It first 

 provides a solution of the long recognized problem of re- 

 moving and utilizing the mature hardwoods, in order that 

 a more valuable and faster growing forest may take their 

 place. The original conception was that softwood trees 

 should replace the hardwood, but market conditions have 

 so radically changed in the last 20 years that the forest 



