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a shelterbelt for both protection and paper pulp la-t year jn-t twice as much 



the growing of timber. as was used in i^><>. the first year for 



Corn will be the crop studied behind which detailed tigure> were available, 



the windbreak this year. Trustworthy More than two and om-half million 



conclusions cannot be obtained by com- tons of pulp were produced. The pulp 



paring results from different crop--, mills used three hundred thousand mi 



Each crop makes its own demand upon cords of wood in 1907 than in the ] 



the soil, so that what would destroy vious year. 



one might do little harm to another. The amount of spruce used was sixty- 

 Corn is a particularly good crop to ex- i ight per cent, of the total consumption 

 periment with because it is easily in- of pulp wood, or 2,700,000 cord-. The 

 jured by hot. dry winds, will not stand increased price of spruce has turned 

 shading, and is very sensitive to frost, the attention of paper manufacturers 



The instruments and apparatus for to a number of other woods, hemlock 

 each state will be read weekly by per- ranking next, with 576,000 cords, or 

 sons assigned to that duty by the Agri- fourteen per cent, of the total con- 

 cultural Experiment Stations in the re- sumption. More than nine per cent, 

 spective states. The whole work will was poplar, and the remainder consist- 

 be in charge of an expert for the For- ed of relatively small amounts of pine, 

 est Service at Washington, who will be cottonwoocl, balsam, and other woods, 

 assisted this summer by three or four There was a marked increase last 

 persons, also from the Forest Service, year in the importation of spruce, which 

 who will study general conditions in the has always been the most popular wood 

 states under investigation, in regard to for pulp. For a number of years pulp 

 the effect of windbreaks on crops. The manufacturers of this country have been 

 work will continue until crops are gath- heavily importing spruce from Canada, 

 ered next fall, when the actual yield of since the available supply of this wood 

 sheltered fields will be measured, and in the north-central and New England 

 results compared with near-by unshel- states, where most of the pulp mills 

 tered fields. Some of the observations are located, is not equal to the demand, 

 will continue through the winter. Figures show that the amount of this 



It is expected that the results will be valuable pulp wood brought into this 



published both by the Forest Service country was more than two and one- 



and by the experiment stations which half times as great in 1907 as in 1899. 



cooperate in carrying out the work. In 1907 the importations were larger 



than ever before, being twenty-five per 



^ ^ * cent, greater than in 1906. The spruce 



D imports last vear amounted to more 



Wood'pulp Report .. , 



than one-third ot the consumption ot 



A PRELIMINARY report of the con- spruce pulp wood. Only a ^lightly 



sumption of pulp wood and the greater amount of domestic spruce was 



amount of pulp manufactured last year u-ed than in [906. 



has just been issued by the Bureau of Large <|uantitie- f hemlock were 

 the Census. The advance statement i> used by the \Vi<omsin pulp mill . and 

 made from the statistics collected by the report shows that th- Beaver State 

 the Census Bureau in cooperation with now ranks third in pulp production. 

 the United States Forest Service. Xew Y>rk and Maine ranking first and 

 Many of the tigues bring OUt interest- second, respectively. rplar has been 

 ing facts which show the rapid growth used for a l<mg time in tin- manufac- 

 of the paper-making and allied in. Ins- tmv ..f high grade paper, but the sup- 

 tries during the last decade. Nearly ply of this wood is limited and the con- 

 four million cords of wood, in exact sumption of it has not increased rapidly. 

 numbers 5,962,660 cord-, were u^ed in Wood pulp i- usually made by either 

 the T'ni'ed States in the manufacture of one of two general processes, mechani- 



