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lies only in the careful protection and reforesting of 

 timber lands. Supposing that it takes about fifty or 

 sixty years to grow good pulpwood spruce and that 

 such a growing forest could be protected from fire 

 and other losses, a tract of about one hundred 

 thousand square miles of forest could then, under 

 proper care and management, produce the desired 

 wood crop to furnish a perpetual supply for pulp 

 manufacture. This means an area about the size of 

 New York and Pennsylvania together, but is less 

 than our present area of really waste lands which 

 the United States Department of Agriculture says 

 could readily be put into growing forests. 



There is no question but that the Paper Age can 

 be continued, but it is equally clear that without a 

 very great change in present methods, and probably 

 in present costs, we will some day find ourselves like 

 Australia and New Zealand, in the position where a 

 man who prints thirty pages in one daily newspaper 

 stands a good chance of landing in jail. There must 

 be first a proper national forestry law, there must 

 be state cooperation, and there must be a willingness 

 on the part of the public as well as the industry to 

 cooperate. 



