CHAPTER VII 



Forest to Printing Press 



Wood pulp and paper making. 



Logging for pulp making is not far different from 

 the process of getting out logs for lumber, but since 

 it is possible to cut the wood into short lengths at 

 the start, the problem of transportation is much 

 simplified. Although most paper companies own 

 their own land and cut their own wood, many 

 private owners of forests and wood-lots near these 

 industries find a ready market for cord-wood of the 

 proper size. A large company in the south recently 

 made special efforts to stimulate pine growing 

 among the farmers in its immediate neighborhood, 

 while in New Hampshire cord-wood in four foot 

 lengths is a readily marketed product of the farm 

 wood-lot. The pulp and paper companies are begin- 

 ning to recognize that the stimulation of the wood- 

 lot idea is important to their future, not merely for 

 the sake of the few additional cords thus obtained, 

 but because, through the farmer's appreciation of 

 the value of wood, he becomes eager to cooperate in 



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