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PULPWOOD IN PENNSYLVANIA 



The Department of Forestry has just 

 completed a survey of the pulpwood situ- 

 atioti in Pennsylvania. This study shows 

 which used 320,076 cords of wood during 

 that there are 13 pulp mills in the State, 

 1921. This was a decrease of almost 35 

 per cent from the. 1920 consumption, when 

 489,211 cords were consumed. 



The pulp and paper business is one of 

 the most important of Pennsylvania in- 

 dustries that depends upon the forest for 

 its raw material. More than $50,000,000 

 are invested in the pulp mills. Last year 

 they employed 7,000 ^people, paid out $10,- 

 000,000 in wages and turned out products 

 valued at $20,000,000. 



The principal kinds of wood used by 

 the. mills are 99,559 cords of spruce, 63.355 

 cords of yellow 'pine, 40,263 cords of pop- 

 lar, 38,753 cords of beech, birch and maple. 

 The remainder was made up of Balsam fir, 

 yellow poplar, hemlock, gum and sycamore. 



The most striking feature of the pulp- 

 wood situation is the fact that more than 

 72% of the wood used in the pulp mills 

 comes from outside of the State and less 

 than 28% comes from within the State, 

 Three of the pulp companies import every 

 stick of wood they use, 8 of the 13 com- 

 panies imiport over 60% of their wood, 

 while not a single company relies entirely 

 upon home-grown wood. This makes the 

 I)uIpwood situation serious, for the Pejin- 

 sylvania mills cannot depend indefinitely 

 on Canada and other neighboring states 

 for pulpwood. These outside supplier are 

 being depleted. There is only one practical 

 way to bring relief, and that is to grow 

 the wood on the hills of Pennsylvania. 



The Department's investigation shows 

 that one of the most promising signs of 

 the Pennsylvania pulpwood situation is 

 the use of mill waste. Wood that was 

 formerly discarded is now used on an in- 

 creasing scale. Mill waste, slabwood and 

 mountain wood are finding their way into 

 ;he mills. During 1921 a total of almost 

 43,0(X) cords of this kind of material was 

 used. It made up more than 13% of the 

 total wood consumption of all the mills. 

 .\mong the material used were old logs 

 that had been lying in the woods for 

 twenty years. 



Experts of the Department of Forestry 

 estimate that 500,000 acres of well-managed 

 forest land will be required to maintain 

 the pulp mills of Pennsylvania, and sup- 

 ply them continuously with wood. The 

 pulp companies now own 86,000 acres of 

 forest land in Pennsylvania. If this area 

 is handled .properly it will produce a large 

 fiuantity of pulpwood. The State Forests, 

 which now exceed 1,126,000 acres, will 

 also supply considerable material and the 

 privately owned forest land will make up 

 the rest. These three sources of supply 

 will Ko a long way toward supplying wood 



needs of the Pennsylvania pulp mills and 

 help maintain this important wood-using 

 industry. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES 



Evergreen trees form one of the most 

 effective classes of ornamental plants. They 

 can not be used as extensively as deciduous 

 trees a5 they are more exacting in their 

 requirements of soil, exposure, etc., and 

 their very individuality is often a reason 

 for planting them sparingly, according to 

 Prof. Alan F. Arnold, of the New York 

 State College of Forestry. For many pur- 

 poses, however, they are invaluable, but 

 the owners of homes generally know little 

 of their ornamental possibilities. A great 

 deal of the planting of evergreens that is 

 done on small lots particularly, is attended 

 with unfortunate results. This is due largely 

 to a lack of knowledge as to what trees are 

 most likely to do well. 



SAVING THE TREES OF BROOKLYN 



JTOW to save the trees of Brooklyn by 

 careful forestry practice is a problem 

 which has been submitted to the New York 

 State College of Forestry at Syracuse by 

 prominent Brooklyn men as the result of 

 a street tree investigation made by the head 

 of the department of City Forestry at the 

 State College. 



It is suggested that an area of Brooklyn 

 streets be taken, planted and maintained 

 as a joint experimental problem for the 

 period of at least ten years by the State 

 College of Forestry and the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, carried out by funds sup- 

 plied by interested citizens of Brooklyn. It 

 is said that the trees of Central Park have 

 been in danger of dying out entirely and 

 the Brooklyn proposition is the result 

 partly of the College's forestry work on 

 these trees. 



SLASH PINE REVENUE 



Slash pine grows rapidly and yields reve- 

 nue in turpentine gum at an early age 

 while it is growing into timber, says the 

 United States Department of Agriculture 

 in Farmers' Bulletin 1256. Slash Pine, 

 prepared by Wilbur R. Mattoon, forest 

 examiner, and now ready for distribution. 

 Well-stocked stands of young growth, after 

 making liberal deductions for the cost of 

 taxes and fire-protection during the period 

 of growth, show profits of 6 to 12 per cent 

 compound interest on an investment of $5 

 an acre. A large number of owners in the 

 South are deriving good profits from low- 

 priced lands by using them for the produc- 

 tion of timber and grazing of stock. If 

 fire is excluded, the range yields more of 

 the tender annual grasses and legumes 

 which are more nutritious than the hardy 

 perennials like wire and broom-sedge 

 grasses, and the influence of the protective 

 soil cover stimulates tree growth to a 

 marked degree. 



MEMORIAL TREES 



Particularly fine sepcimens of Oak, 

 Maple, Elm, Etc., for memorial pUoting. 

 Tree from :5 to 30 feet re recommend- 

 ed. Each tree ia recordad with the Amer- 

 ican Forestry Aisocialion to perpetuate 

 ita memory. 



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