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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



September 



them less able to compete in the gen- 

 eral market. Such items are funda- 

 mental in New England's welfare. 

 There is a supply of standing spruce 

 on hand sufficient to keep the paper 

 and pulp plants at work for twenty 

 years at the present rate of consump- 

 tion, and with the increase in popula- 

 tion throughout the country, the rate 

 of consumption is almost sure to in- 



England establishments? It is not 

 surprising that the paper makers and 

 the lumbermen are in favor of a forest 

 reservation in New England. The 

 American Paper and Pulp Associa- 

 tion, at its meeting in New York last 

 year approved of a reservation in the 

 White Mountains, and asked Congress 

 to take speedy action. The National 

 Wholesale Lumber Dealers' Associa- 



Virginia Spruce with Dense Balsam Reproduction on Mt. Jackson, New Hampshire. 



crease. The areas of spruce in the 

 United States suitable for the manu- 

 facture of paper are limited, but they 

 are said to be extensive in Canada. 

 Shall we have to import supplies from 

 Canada? (Thirty-seven per cent of 

 the spruce used in New Hampshire 

 last year was imported from there.) 

 Will our paper mills move into Can- 

 ada, or will new mills be erected in 

 Canada to compete with our New 



tion, and the National Board of Trade 

 meetings in Washington did the same. 

 So did the American Forest Congress. 

 One reason why the Black Forest 

 region in Germany is such a thriving 

 manufacturing center is because the 

 forests are owned by the government, 

 the towns, and universities, and so 

 managed that there is no danger of 

 exhausted supplies. Compare this 



