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THE ASSOCIATION OF WOOD- 

 USING INDUSTRIES 



A BIG step forward in forest conserva- 

 tion was taken in the organization and 

 formal launching of an association of the 

 various wood-using industries of America. 

 The importance and size of these com- 

 bined industries assures the power of ac- 

 complishment of the organization in the 

 field of forestry, as it is their declared in- 

 tention to urge a permanent policy of re- 

 forestation before the National Congress, to 

 work out practical plans for conserving 

 the present limited sources of wood supply, 

 and to establish standardization of sizes 

 used in the various industries in order to 

 aid the lumber industry to secure a greater 

 number of feet out of the logs, etc. This 

 official federation of the wood-using indus- 

 tries also offers a splendid opportunity for 

 the collection and dissemination of much 

 needed information. The proper use of 

 wood is one of the most vital questions of 

 the day and the new organization, in its 

 one capacity of acting as a general clear- 

 ing-house in this field alone will perform 

 a very valuable service. 



The industries taking part in the or- 

 ganization were the Hickory Products As- 

 sociation, Automotive Wood Wheel Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Hickory Handle 

 Manufacturers' Association, Associated 

 Wooden Ware Manufacturers, The Four 

 Ones, National Association of Egg Case 

 and Egg Case Filler Manufacturers, Na- 

 tional Association of Box Manufacturers, 

 National Basket and Fruit Package Asso- 

 ciation, Central Bureau of Dining Table 

 Manufacturers, Ply Wood Manufacturers' 

 Association, National Implement and Ve- 

 hicle Association, National Council of 

 Furniture Associations, National Associa- 

 tion of Chair Manufacturers, National As- 

 sociation of Wood Turners, American 

 Paper and Pulp Association, Pulp Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Tissue Paper Manu- 

 facturers' Association, Writing Paper Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, Cover Paper Man- 

 ufacturers' Association, and the American 

 Railway Engineering Association. 



The officers are: President, Mr. E. E. 

 Parsonage, representing the implement and 

 vehicle interests; vice-president, Hugh P. 

 Baker, representing the paper and pulp in- 

 terests ; secretary, William B. Baker, repre- 

 senting the furniture industry; treasurer 

 and directors, F. A. Vogel, representing 

 miscellaneous wood-using industries; W. 

 A. Babbitt, wood turners; John Foley, wood 

 preservatives, and W. Harry Davis, repre- 

 senting the wooden containers interests. 



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LONG-LEAF PINE 



EJOW the struggle for existence of young 

 long-leaf pine on cut-over lands in 

 the South is handicapped by hog grazing 

 and recurrent fires has been brought out 

 by a six-year experiment in Louisiana. 



Millions of long-leaf seedlings sprang up 

 over the South in the fall of 1913, resulting 

 from a very heavy seed crop and favorable 

 weather conditions. At the request of 

 Henry E. Hardtner, of Urania, Louisiana, 

 the Forest Service of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture, in co-operation 

 with the Louisiana Department of Con- 

 servation, laid out a series of permanent 

 experimental plots. They were established 

 at Urania in January, 1914, the aim being 

 to secure reliable information regarding 

 natural reproduction of long-leaf pine. 



Four sample tracts of one-quarter of an 

 acre each were selected of about the same 

 character and about equally well-stocked 

 with one-year-old long-leaf pine seedlings. 

 Two of these plots were fenced against 

 cattle and hogs and two left unprotected. 

 Further, one plot in each of these two 

 series has since been burned over yearly 

 (or nearly every year), and the other two 

 protected against fires. 



A remeasurement of the sample areas 

 was made in the winter of 1919-1920. The 

 unfenced tracts were each found to con- 

 tain only two long-leaf pine saplings. Since 

 they originally had 734 and 813 seedlings, 

 respectively, this was a loss of 99.6 and 

 99.7 per pent of the trees. The fenced 

 tracts, on the other hand, were found to 

 contain full stands numbering 1,513 and 

 1,707, respectively, of little long-leaf trees. 

 This is the equivalent of 6,052 and 6,826 

 trees per acre under protection as com- 

 pared with 8 per acre unprotected against 

 hogs. This difference is practically ac- 

 counted for, it is definitely known, by the 

 fondness of the "razor-back" hogs for the 

 thick succulent bark on long-leaf pine tap- 

 roots. Although present in widely vary- 

 ing numbers, this famous southern forager 

 usually 'occurs in sufficient numbers to 

 destroy during the course of the first two 

 or three seasons, and even during periods 

 of extraordinary reproduction, the majority 

 of all young long-leaf pines. It should be 

 remarked that, so far as known, no damage 

 of this sort has been reported from blooded 

 hogs. 



The effect of yearly controlled burnings 

 is shown in a decided check in the growth 

 of long-leaf and the killing out of prac- 

 tically all of the short-leaf and loblolly 

 pines, which are not particularly resistant 



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