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EDITORIAL 



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ure on that, as Canada has already 

 stopped the- export of pulpwood and 

 .sawlogs to the United States; and if 

 there is going to be a shortage in the 

 future timber supply, Canada will cer- 

 tainly prohibit the export of timber 

 products. So, therefore, it should be 

 plain to all that the only remedy is 

 forest preservation and reforestation. 



"The largest corporation consumers 

 of timber in the I'nited States to-day 

 are the railroads and mining com- 

 panies, and reforestation should be 

 as much of their present business pol- 

 icy as any department they have. If 

 a substitute for a wooden railroad tie 

 is not discovered, what will be the fu- 

 ture of railroad stocks and bonds when 

 the timber is exhausted? Very few 

 corporation officials know anything of 

 of the general timber situation, nor 

 do they know that timber can be 

 planted at the present time, a small 

 rate of interest charged against the 

 investment, and with the present meth- 

 ods of creosoting and preserving a 

 perpetual timber supply can be ob- 

 tained at about the same cost as they 

 are now paying. If every large cor- 

 poration consuming timber in any 

 quantity would set aside a small per 

 cent, of its net earnings and invest 

 in tree planting for its future use. 

 it would greatly add to the value of 

 such corporation's assets, and in a few 

 years such corporations could say. 'we 

 have a perpetual timber supply at a 

 small cost and the public is safe in buy- 

 ing our stocks and bonds.' 



"In my opinion every railroad in this 

 country at the present time should have 

 a tree growing for every two ties it 



have in its n>adbed, t. . a'l<>\\ 



Something for timber destroyed by 

 wind and lire. 



"A census of the remaining tim- 

 ber supply of this country should be 

 taken as near as possible every live 

 years, without incurring too much ex- 

 pense; also a census each year of the 

 number of trees planted by the < ^.vern- 

 ment, state, corporation and private 

 interests, so that the public would 

 know what progress is being made. 

 Respect fully submitted. 



\V. J. WALLACE." 



T-, . It is evident that largei 



Engineering 



Experiment :m<1 niure definite pr..vi 

 Stations >in should be made fr 



technical and scientific 

 investigatii ns at the Land Grant C<>1- 

 leges. The resources of the country 

 should be properly developed and care- 

 fully and economically utilized. Much 

 information is needed to make this 

 possible. The prevention of waste of 

 our forests, our sources of power, our 

 fuels, our minerals, our materials of 

 engineering and manufacturing and 

 our labor need most careful and accu- 

 rate investigation. The economical and 

 safe use of materials, energy or pro- 

 cesses can not be assured without con- 

 tinuous experimentation relating t-0 tin- 

 strength and durability factor- of all 

 materials entering into engineering 

 structures or into manufacturing pro- 

 cesses. It is mere rational to invest 

 money for facts at the start than t<> 

 try to xuhsidixe industries which need 

 fundamental investigations iTAc 1 hi- 

 diistrialist. Kansa- \u"icultural Col- 

 lege. 



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