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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SCENE IN A GERMAN FOREST. 



AMERICAN FOREST STUDENTS WHO ANNUALLY GO TO GERMANY IN LARGE NUMBERS TO STUDY MODEL FOREST CONDITIONS 

 MAY FIND THE WAR HAS RESULTED IN GREAT DESTRUCTION OF THE FORESTS. 



struggle, or indeed in all Europe. It 

 behooves us, then, to look for new out- 

 lets. Heretofore Germany has had a 

 large share of the South American 

 trade, particularly with Argentina and 

 Brazil. These countries are still going 

 to need material, and the United States 

 now has an opportunity not only to en- 

 ter the field, but to cover it. 



This subject is worthy of the closest 

 study by all the agencies that can be 

 brought to bear on it, and the lumber 

 industry should take a large share in 

 the study. 



The possibility of developing an ex- 

 port trade in mine timbers is indicated 

 by Consul Lorin A. Lathrop, of Car- 

 diff, Wales, who says : 



"The coal mines in the South Wales 

 field are timbered with the trunks of 

 20-year-old fir trees, imported prin- 

 cipally from France. So many wood- 

 cutters have been withdrawn by French 

 mobilization that there is danger of 

 shortage of the supply. Prices have 

 risen from $5 to $7.50 per measured 

 ton, ex-ship, within a week." Consul 

 Lathrop also says that efforts are being 

 made to secure, through official chan- 



nels, a release by the French Govern- 

 ment of sufficient woodcutters from 

 military and naval service to maintain 

 supplies, but as France is rushing every 

 available man to the front this effort is 

 not at all likely to be successful. This 

 being the case the market is apparently 

 open to the United States. 



The war should boom the pulp and 

 paper trade in the United States and 

 Canada and the Paper Trade Journal, 

 of New York, in a letter to AMERICAN 

 FORESTRY under date of August 27, is 

 most optimistic, saying: 



"There has developed an extraordi- 

 nary demand for paper of all kinds in 

 the domestic market, and from Europe 

 and South America. Our mills will be 

 taxed to their utmost capacity, and yet 

 will not be able to meet it without fur- 

 ther equipment. Every old mill in the 

 country will be requisitioned and fancy 

 prices will prevail. The position of the 

 world's market is indicated by the fol- 

 lowing cable received by the Trade and 

 Commerce Department of Ottawa, On- 

 tario. 



"Large Bordeaux newspaper with 

 daily circulation of 150,000 willing to 



