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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Destructive lumbering in the West (Courtesy of Forest Service) Inserts: Waste through preventable decay. 



Why Wood Preservation is Imperative ! 



The reckless extravagance in the use of our timber resources has reached the stage where the subject is one of 

 serious concern to the American people. This growing anxiety is reflected by a recent memorial addressed to the 

 President and Congress by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, from which the following extracts are quoted. 



"Whereas, The United States during the 

 last half century has witnessed the reduction 

 of the forests in one region after another. 

 The white pine forests of Pennsylvania, New 

 York and New England disappeared nearly 

 a half century ago. Likewise the pine forests 

 of the Lake States for the most part were 

 obliterated before 1900. The southern pineries 

 which for 20 years have been the main supply 

 of lumber for Illinois and other central states 

 will, according to statements recently made 

 by authoritative sources, be to a large extent 

 exhausted within the next ten years. 



"The effect * * * has been the closing of 

 nearby industries, * * * the shifting of local 

 population to new centers, involving heavy 

 penalties upon both the industries and the 

 people. As another result the country has 

 observed the area of cutover timberland in- 

 crease to * * * 228 million acres. *** 



"These important industries including the 

 manufacture of railway cars, etc. *** are 

 now threatened by the exhaustion of the for- 

 ests from which their supplies have been 

 drawn. * * * Therefore, Be it resolved, by 

 the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House 

 of Representatives concurring therein, that 

 the Fifty-first General Assembly of the State 

 of Illinois urges the attention of the Presi- 

 dent and the Congress of the United States 

 to the present timber situation and recom- 

 mends that, without delay, there be formu- 

 lated such a National program of lorestry as 

 will insure the future timber supplies re- 

 quired by the industries of the country." 



(Lumber World Review 5/25/1919) 



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After 40 years of service still in per- 

 fect condition. Sample of an entire 

 block that was creosoted and laid 

 in 1878 removed in 1918. 



Forest products are indispensable to 

 human existence. Wood is the most 

 important building material, and will 

 ever remain so. It cannot be entirely 

 replaced. Therefore, its conservation 

 and preservation from the destructive 

 influences of decay and insects by pres- 

 ervative treatment is imperative. Every 

 consumer can greatly reduce the loss 

 and trouble resulting from the rotting 

 of wood by the application of Carbosota 

 Creosote Oil the standard wood pre- 

 servative of America for non-pressure 

 treatments. 



Our experts will advise the most 

 practical treatment. Their services may 

 be obtained gratis by addressing the 

 nearest office. 



(Green wood cannot be effectively 

 creosoted by non-pressure processes. It 

 should be air-dry. In regions of moist, 

 warm climate, wood of some species may 

 start to decay before it can be air dried. 

 Exceptions should be made in such cases 

 and treatment modified accordingly.) 



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