WOOD FUEL AS A NATIONAL NEED 



THE WOODLOT A SOURCE OF FUEL 



Such growth as this will help solve the nation's fuel problem. By judicious cutting the wood- 

 lot is improved, future usefulness is not impaired, and the country is given needed help to win 

 the war to make the world safe for Democracy. 



OUT OF the present coal situation has come no one 

 thing more important than the lesson for next 

 winter. Forced suspension of trade and industry 

 on heatless Mondays and wide-spread suffering and hard- 

 ships throughout the severe winter have emphasized the 

 need of fuel pre- 

 paredness for the 

 cold season of 

 1918-1919. Fore- 

 handedness has be- 

 c o m e imperative. 

 Reduction of the 

 strain on coal pro- 

 duction and coa 1 

 transportation are 

 foreseen as a na- 

 tional o b 1 i gation. 

 hor provision for 

 the future, as well 

 as for relief for the 

 present, the use of 

 wood for fuel has 

 become what 

 George Ade might 

 possibly call a 

 burning issue. 



Concrete expres- 

 sion of this vital 

 point is given in a statement issued to the county fuel 

 administrators of New York State by Albert H. Wiggin, 

 state fuel administrator. In this statement Mr. Wiggin 

 forecasts that coal will be refused next winter to all per- 

 sons who have access to supplies of wood. He expresses 

 the belief that individuals, and even communities, who 

 have access to wood supplies, and do not take steps to 

 cut the wood and make it available, will find themselves 

 in the pinch of 

 the fuel short- 

 age more ser- 

 iously w hen 

 cold weather 

 again comes 

 around than 

 they have been 

 this year. His 

 letter is intend- 

 ed as a fore- 

 warning of 

 these condi- 

 tions. 



"Every indi- 

 cation points to 

 the fact that 

 the coal strin- 

 gency will be 

 even more 



THE PARTNER OF THE WOODLOT 



Portable 



This is a busy sawmill engaged in the useful occupation of converting woodlot timber into fuel, 

 sawing machines serve 8 a g n entire community in a short time and at very .light cost. In th,s partner- 

 ship lies the solution of a grave national problem. 



acute next winter than it is at present," says the Fuel 

 Administrator in his letter. "This accordingly makes it 

 absolutely necessary that the production of wood for fuel 

 purposes, to meet next winter's shortage, be started im- 

 mediately, upon the largest possible scale and with the 



utmost energy. It 

 is probable that the 

 Fuel Administra- 

 tion will be obliged 

 to restrict the avail- 

 able coal supply to 

 necessary war in- 

 dustries and to per- 

 sons so located that 

 they are unable to 

 secure wood. In 

 fact, it has already 

 been necessary to 

 take such drastic 

 action in some lo- 

 calities. 



"It is the duty 

 of the local fuel 

 administrator, inas- 

 much as this dan- 

 ger is now fore- 

 seen, to have the 

 need thoroughly 

 understood in all rural sections and small communities 

 having access to wood supplies, in order that they may 

 at once institute effective measures to insure their sup- 

 ply of wood fuel for next winter, and thus protect 

 themselves." 



Persons who plan to relieve the coal shortage by burn- 

 ing wood can figure, roughly speaking, that two pounds 

 of seasoned wood have a fuel value equal to one pound 



of coal, accord- 

 ing to experts 

 of the Forest 

 Service. While 

 different kinds 

 of wood have 

 different fuel 

 values, the for- 

 esters say that 

 in general the 

 greater the dry 

 weight of a 

 non - resinous 

 wood, the more 

 heat it will give 

 out when burn- 

 ed. 



For such 

 species as hick- 

 ory, oak, beech, 



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