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such a financial guarantee can be arranged by the Board 

 of Trade or Chamber of Commerce. In others, com- 

 munity wood yards, backed by financial guarantees, will 

 furnish the iolution. Wherever possible, however, in 

 the opinion of the New York State Advisory Committee 

 distribution should be taken care of by local coal and 



HOW ABOUT YOUR OWN WOODLOT? 



This shows a woodlot of young mixed hardwoods. It is in excellent con- 

 dition and suggests what may and should be done with others. By care- 

 ful cutting your woodlot can be improved and much needed fuel harvested. 



wood dealers, who are already equipped for this work. 

 In many cases they will also be able to make their own 

 financial arrangements. 



Canada is substituting wood for coal and planning to 

 meet a far more serious coal shortage next winter, ac- 

 cording to information contained in a letter just re- 

 ceived by Professor A. B. Recknagle, Forester and Sec- 

 retary of the Empire State Forest Products Associa- 

 tion, from Clyde Leavitt, Chief Forester of the Conser- 

 vation Commission of Canada. Mr. Leavitt advocates 

 that city and municipal governments appropriate money 

 to build up a reserve supply of wood to be drawn upon 

 when necessary. 



"The whole situation has become very critical in many 

 parts of eastern Canada, particularly Ontario," writes 

 Mr. Leavitt. "To my mind all this means that there 

 must be some definite organization for utilizing the large 

 supplies of hardwood available for fuel, but which will 



be utilized to only a comparatively slight extent so long 

 as the matter is left in the hands of the regular dealers. 

 They will not lay in large supplies in advance, for fear 

 that the coal shortage may not exist next winter or that 

 the war may end, in either of which events they believe 

 that they would face a material loss due to the reduc- 

 tion in the demand for wood with consequent decrease 

 in the price. My idea is that the city and municipal 

 governments ought to go into the matter definitely and 

 invest a moderate amount of money in building up a 

 reserve of wood, which can be drawn upon whenever 

 the coal shortage makes it necessary." 



The War Department is considering cutting a consid- 

 erable amount of wood on the Pisgah National Forest 

 in North Carolina to supplement the coal supply at the 

 Spartanburg and Greenville training camps. Part of 

 this fuel would be received from those parts of the forest 

 where logging operations have been carried on and 

 would result, it is said, in a more sightly appearance of 

 the cut-over land. It is planned to establish camps of 

 soldiers in the woods to do the cutting. At present there 

 is no shortage of fuel at the camps ; and it is likely that 

 a large part of what is accumulated this year will be al- 

 lowed to season until next winter. 



TRY THIS ON YOUR WOODCHOPPER 



If you had this fuel pile in your own woodlot you could defy th 

 producers and the railroads. The idea is worth trying. If yot 

 and do not the Fuel Administrator may get you next winter. 



e coal 

 try it 



