LUMBER FOR WAR-TIME USES 



397 



For the logging crews skilled axemen, sawyers, tie 

 hewers, skidders, teamsters, and blacksmiths are being 

 enlisted. Millwrights, sawyers, and engineers are to man 

 portable sawmills which will form part of the equipment, 

 while suitable helpers for the various activities connected 



with woods operations and the maintenance of large camps 

 will be picked up. 



The prompt recruiting of this regiment will, it is ex- 

 pected, enable it to be among the first to carry the flag of 

 the United States abroad. 



FORESTER GRAVES IN FRANCE 



ANNOUNCEMENT of the arrival of Henry S. 

 Graves, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service in Paris, 

 has led the Department of Agriculture to explain 

 that Mr. Graves has gone abroad to make arrangements 

 for the forest work which the American army engineers 

 will undertake in France in connection with the military 

 operations of the Allied forces. 



Because of the opportunity for service by this country 

 in woods work incidental to the war which the request 

 of the British Government for the sending of a forest 

 regiment was believed to present, Mr. Graves has been 

 granted leave of absence from his position as head of 

 the Forest Service and has received a commission as 

 Major in the Reserve Engineer Corps. He has not been 

 assigned to any command, but is acting under instruc- 



tions, it is stated, to proceed to France in order to learn 

 on the ground in advance just what conditions will need 

 to be met, what equipment will be called for, and how 

 extensively the services of American lumbermen can be 

 utilized to advantage. Meanwhile the recruiting of the 

 regiment which has already been asked for is being pushed 

 by the Forest Service and is said to be advancing rapidly. 

 One of the staff officers of the regiment, Captain 

 Barrington Moore, is with Mr. Graves for the purpose 

 of arranging for its prompt assumption of the specific 

 duties to which it will be assigned when it is landed in 

 France. While organized on military lines, the work of 

 the regiment will be industrial, not combatant. It will 

 operate in the woods behind the armies, getting out 

 timbers, ties, and lumber required for military purposes. 



LUMBER FOR WAR-TIME USES 



THE lumber committee of the advisory commission, 

 Council of National Defense, estimates that 

 2,000,000,000 feet of lumber may be used for 

 purposes directly connected with the war in the next 

 twelve months. 



The committee now is given to understand that pro- 

 vision will be made at each camp for anywhere up to 

 40,000 men, instead of the 25,000 originally planned. 

 This may be due to the decision to call for 125,000 men 

 to serve as a reserve for the first 500,000 men drafted 

 for the new national army. 



Second in quantity of lumber required comes the 

 wooden shipbuilding program, which the committee esti- 

 mates will require about 400,000,000 feet of lumber. 



In a statement the committee says : 



" The best estimate that can be made of the total 

 amount of lumber required for purposes of national de- 

 fense within the next twelve months is 2,000,000,000 feet. 

 This sounds like a colossal figure, and it is a big figure, 

 but should give no apprehension that it will disturb the 

 markets or cause a shortage of lumber. Actually this 

 will not exceed 5 per cent of one year's lumber produc- 

 tion of this country." 



Here are some more lumber requirements seen by the 

 committee : Structures for training camp purposes for the 

 navy, 200,000,000 feet; aviation school cantonments, 

 120,000,000 feet; erection of 200 buildings at army and 

 navy training camps by the war work council of the 



Young Men's Christian Association, 6,400,000 feet ; pack- 

 ing boxes and crates for the army and navy, at least 

 200,000,000 feet; army wagons, 25,000,000 feet; gun- 

 stocks, 10,000,000 feet; material for 3,500 aeroplanes, 

 3,500,000 feet. 



Army cots, tent poles, automobiles, artillery, cooper- 

 age, furniture, docks and piers, trench lining, saddles, 

 mine timbers, tools, railroad construction, and the lumber 

 necessary in building factories will go to largely swell 

 the total. 



The special committee representing the Southern Pine 

 Association here has issued this formal statement: 



" The committee representing the Southern Pine As- 

 sociation, acting for the Southern Pine Emergency Bu- 

 reau, announced to-day that an order for 100 ships to 

 be sawed by the southern mills has been placed by Gen. 

 George W. Goethals, general manager of the United 

 States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, 

 at an average price of $35 a thousand feet at the mills. 

 The Southern Pine Association has asked those mills 

 which can do so to manufacture the timbers required 

 for wooden ships, and a large number of them have 

 bound themselves to furnish complete schedules at the 

 price named for delivery at such shipyards as may be 

 designated by the Government. 



" General Goethals has accepted this proposition, to 

 the extent of 100 units (ships), comprising approximately 

 140,000,000 feet of lumber." 



INSTEAD of planting a horse-chestnut, why not plant a IVTAPLE sugar season is over. It ended when the first 



real nut tree? Pecans, hickories, or English wahiuts -L-l- leaves unfurled, the sap then becoming less sweet, 



cost very Uttle more than horse-chestnuts, make less litter Seventy drops of sap per minute flow from good trees, and 



and produce a valuable crop. twenty-five gallons of sap make about five pounds of sugar. 



