FORESTRY HILL IN CONGRESS 



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tional Forestry Program Committee, while organized to se- 

 cure a comprehensive forest policy for the nation, wishes 

 to declare its position as being for this appropriation bill, 

 as being one of the important items of its own program." 



D. L. Goodwillie, of Chicago, who appeared for the 

 National Box Manufacturers' Association, and for the 

 Chicago Association of Commerce, told how they are 

 interested in protection of the nation's lumber resources, 

 as a general economic necessity. 



Philip W. Ayres, of the Society for Protection of New 

 Hampshire Forests, spoke on behalf of State Forestry 

 Associations, and P. S. Ridsdale, Secretary of the Ameri- 

 can Forestry Association, declared that the public in 

 general demanded a national forestry policy, of which 

 fire prevention was an essential item, because of the 

 manner in which the entire nation is dependent upon the 



product of the forests, for every type of home and busi- 

 ness necessity, not forgetting the houses in which they 

 live. Attention was called to the fact that the timber 

 comes from the sparsely settled States, and is consumed 

 by the centers of population, thus making the problem 

 national, not local. 



Other speakers were Harris Reynolds, of the National 

 Fire protection Association ; Harvey N. Shepherd, presi- 

 dent of the Massachusetts Forestry Association, Don 

 Hapgood, of the Springfield, Massachusetts Chamber of 

 Commerce ; C. W. Whittlesey, of the New Haven, Con- 

 necticut Chamber of Commerce; Major W. M. Jacoby, 

 of the Pittsburgh Flood Commission ; Major W. L. Hall, 

 of Chicago ; W. A. Babbitt and John Foley, of the Asso- 

 ciation of Wood-Using Industries, and Carlisle P. Wins- 

 low of the Forest Products Laboratory. 



YIELDS OF ALCOHOL FROM WOOD 

 WASTE 



COFTWOOD lumber mill waste can be made to yield 

 ^ twenty gallons or more of 95 per cent alcohol per ton, 

 and hardwood waste about half as much, says the United 

 States Forest Service. Some actual yields obtained by 

 the Forest Products Laboratory, .Madison, Wisconsin. 

 from the waste of various woods arc given in the fol- 

 lowing table : 



SOFTWOOD WASTE 



Kind of wood 



Percentage Percentage Gallons of 



of wood convertible ot sugars 95% alcohol from 

 into sugars 



23 



23 



White Spruce 



Longleaf Pine 



Red Spruce 22 



Norway Pine 25 



Idaho White Pine 21 



Western Hemlock 21 



Montana White Pine 20 



Lodgepole Pine 21 



Sugar Pine 20 



Douglaa Fir 21 



HARDWOOD V 



Silver Maple 20 



Birch 20 



White Oak 17 



Red Gum 20 



Sycamore 18 



Hard Maple 18 



Red Oak 19 



Cottonwood 18 



Slippery Elm 16 



The manufacture ot industrial alcohol i- at present 

 about the only feasible method of utilizing lumber mill 

 refuse on a large scale. An alcohol plant with a daily 

 supply of 180 tons of wood can produce 3.600 gallons of 

 alcohol at a cost, under present conditions, of approxi 

 mately 25 cents a gallon. The success of plants now 

 in operation justifies a serious consideration of this 

 ess by mills having a large quantity of waste. A de- 

 scriptive pamphlet including estimates of plant require- 

 ment! and recent cost data on the manufacture of alcohol 

 from wood i> obtainable from the Forest Products Labo- 

 ratory on request. 



A HUGE WHITE PINE TREE 



A few years ago the Central Pennsylvania Lumber 

 Company, Sheffield, Pennsylvania, felled this large white 

 pine for lumber. The base of the tree measured 26 feet 

 10 inches in circumference. There were four large prongs 

 and one small one. When felled, the logs scaled in excess 

 of 15,000 feet board measure. The tree was cut on what 

 is known as Warrant No. 2034, Highland Township, Elk 

 County, Pennsylvania. 



TN 1850 New York ranked first among the States in 

 lumber cut. It now contributes only one per cent of 

 the total. That's what comes of emptying the bucket 

 but never filling it up. 



