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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Fourdrinier Wires 



Save money by using our durable 

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 in either brass or phosphor bronze 

 in meshes from No. so to no. 

 These wires will give you greater 

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 you less worries. Let us convince 

 you of these facts. 



JOS. O'NEILL 

 WIRE WORKS 



Port Chester, N. Y. 



Established 1906 



$200.00 VERSUS $7.50 



LUMBER SCALER, FARMERS, who 

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 will find an easy way by the use of the 

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P. O. Box 1079 SACRAMENTO, CALIF 



Craig-Becker 

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52 Vanderbilt Avenue 

 New York City 



Bleached, Easy Bleaching, 



Unbleached Sulphites, 



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DOMESTIC EXPORT 



Established 1905 



STERLING LUMBER CO. 



GULF RED CYPRESS 



Long Leaf Yellow Pine, West Coast 



Products. Write Us. 



Finance Building, Philadelphia 



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 NEW YORK 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



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WOOD PRESERVATIVE OUTPUT 

 MAKES LARGE GAIN 



INVESTIGATION by the Forest Service 



of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture shows that the use of wood pre- 

 servative has increased to a large extent 

 in the United States. Valuable work or 

 wood preservation has been done at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory of the de- 

 partment at Madison, Wisconsin. 



In 1919, there were 65,556,247 gallons of 

 creosote, 2.412,592 gallons of paving oil, 

 102.011 gallons of miscellaneous preserva- 

 tives used in the United States, in addi- 

 tion to 43,483,000 pounds of zinc chloride 

 the largest quantity of this preservative 

 ever reported by the industry. Of the 

 creosote, 6,493,000 gallons were imported. 



Prior to 1917 the plants of this country 

 depended upon foreign manufacturers for 

 approximately 50 per cent of the creosote 

 consumed. Most of this oil came from 

 Germany and England. During the war, 

 however, this supply was cut off, and the 

 plants looked to domestic producers for 

 their supply. Nearly all of the importa- 

 tions in 1919 were from England and 

 Canada. 



The material treated consisted of cross- 

 ties, poles, wood blocks, crossarms, con- 

 struction timbers, and miscellaneous mate- 

 rials, largely for railroads, mines, and tele- 

 graph and telephone companies. The total 

 amount of wood subjected to preservative 

 treatment by the 108 plants that were ac- 

 tive during 1919 was 139,878,584 cubic feet, 

 or 17,265,694 more than the previous year. 

 About 80 per cent of this wood consisted 

 of railroad crossties. 



TIMBER-GROWING IN THE NORTH- 

 WEST 



TN the Northwest growing timber requires 

 manly two things : fire proteotion and 

 revision of tax laws, says C. S. Chapman, 

 of the Western Forestry and Conservation 

 Association, in the Oregon . Voter. Given 

 these, continues Mr. Chapman, our lumber 

 industry will be permanent, not vanishing. 

 In no section of the country have private 

 owners of timber put forward such effort 

 and expended such sums to prevent forest 

 fires as in the Northwest. The states have 

 not been similarly progressive. States such 

 as Maine, New York and Pennsylvania, 

 once great lumber-producing sections, spend 

 far more now to protect their meager for- 

 ests than do northwestern states to pro- 

 tect their vast forest wealth. 



In 1919 timber owners in the states of 

 Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon 

 expended over $1,000,000 to protect their 

 properties. The states expended less than 

 $100,000 other than in protection of state- 

 owned lands, and the Federal Government's 

 expense outside National Forests was un- 

 der $25,000. 



