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that last year five million of 

 these containers were used 

 in this state. With young 

 orchards coming constantly 

 into bearing, your needs in 

 this respect are bound to 

 increase. Where is the 

 lumber coming from to 

 make these containers ? 

 From Georgia or from 

 somewhere else? It is for 

 you to choose. 



And what about your 

 ever-increasing crops of 

 vegetables? Why, this 

 State is a veritable burst- 

 ing land of plenty. But 

 what's the use of raising 

 all these good things if you 

 are going to be curtailed in 

 shi])ping them to the mar- 

 kets? 



Do you know that the 

 per capita lumber consumption of Georgia is among the 

 lowest of the States ? This is indicated by preliminary 

 computations lately prepared in the Forest Service. It 

 is far below that of the big agricultural States of the 

 West and is even below that of the small, manufacturing 

 States of New England. It is nearly in a class with the 

 per capita consumption of those European countries 

 where wood is a luxury. Surely this cannot continue 

 in Georgia where the po.ssibilities for growth and de- 



PROTECTED FROM FIRE 



Showing how quickly the long-leaf pine progresses when the 

 young growth is protected from fire. 



velopment are unlimited. 

 Some day you will use sev- 

 eral times the quantity of 

 lumber you are now using. 

 Are you going to antiqipate 

 this and provide for a sup- 

 ply at home, or will you 

 follow the exam])le of the 

 Lake States and permit 

 timber depletion to con- 

 tinue unchecked and then 

 after your su])ply has 

 dwindled, be forced to 

 bring lumber from the Pa- 

 cific Coast or perhaps from 

 Siberia? 



Georgia's lumber pro- 

 duction declined from one 

 and one-third billion feet 

 in 1909 to less than 900 

 million feet in 1919, or 33 

 per cent. A very signifi- 

 cant thing about this de- 

 crease in production is that it took place in the face of 

 an increase in population which one might expect ordi- 

 narily to be accompanied by an increase in demand. A 

 further decline from the 1919 figure occurred in 1920 

 amounting to 15 per cent. Your naval-stores industry 

 has been waning in the past 20 years to the extent of 

 approximately 75 per cent, and from the leading State 

 in this great industry, which is confined exclusively to the 

 South, Georgia is dropping to a place of insignificance. 



AFTER A FIRE ON LONG-LEAF PINE LAND 



Note the burnt stubs of young pines, showing how the fire not only kills the well grown trees, but destroys new growth so 



that the land unless artificially reseeded is no longer productive. 



