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where its future raw material was to come from. 

 Already over a third of our entire pulpwood supply 

 is grown across the Canadian border, and Canada, 

 profiting by our mistakes, is now taking steps to 

 restrict the cutting of timber. This means that our 



A dense and continuous forest the size of New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania together might under proper management furnish a perpetual 

 supply of wood for paper manufacture. 



annual importation of Canadian pulpwood has 

 practically reached the maximum, and for the re- 

 maining two-thirds we will have to look after 

 ourselves. 



Only a few years ago paper manufacturers 

 thought spruce was about the only wood they could 



