ADMINISTRATION 107 



National Forests, but also material used by local 

 residents near a Forest. 



One of the important problems which confronts 

 the Office of Products in the various National 

 Forest districts is the utilization of the so-called 

 low grade or inferior tree species. The terms 

 "high grade" and "low grade" or "inferior," as 

 used at present, merely indicate the lumberman's 

 valuation of the timber from his point of view and 

 according to his standards of value. If a certain 

 species will not produce clear lumber, which is 

 straight-grained, easily worked, and not subject to 

 splitting or warping, it is at once classed as inferior. 

 But the Forest Products specialists each year are 

 making progress in demonstrating that wood, in 

 order to be of marketable value, does not neces- 

 sarily need to be cut in the form of lumber. It is 

 also being shown that proper methods of drying 

 lumber make possible the use of inferior woods for 

 lumber and manufacturing purposes. 



The Office of Forest Products in California has 

 made considerable progress in overcoming the lum- 

 berman's prejudices against the inferior species in 

 the California National Forests and the species are 

 beginning to find wider use and to command better 



