CHAPTER XVIII 



Philanthropy or Efficiency 



How the pulp and paper industry regards refor- 

 estation. 



If forest re-establishment is necessary for the 

 maintenance of the lumber industry, it is doubly so 

 for the continued production of pulp and paper. 

 Paper manufacturers cannot pull up a two million 

 dollar plant with all its expensive and heavy paper- 

 making machinery to move elsewhere, as the saw- 

 mill men have done. Forest growing with them 

 has passed the stage of ineffectual philanthropic 

 efforts. They must make their wood supply last or 

 go out of business, and the whole industry cries for 

 an efficient management of the woodgrowing 

 problem. 



Certain methods of conservative cutting and of 

 planting forest trees have been undertaken by a 

 number of pulpwood forest owners, particularly in 

 the east; but these developments have not yet 

 reached an extent sufficient to have an important 

 effect upon the prospective wood supply, and they 



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