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ducted by some central body. The United States 

 Department of Agriculture already maintains six 

 Forest Experiment stations, two in the south and 

 four in the west, but their work has been handi- 

 capped by insufficient appropriations. We need an 

 extension of experimental work; in particular we 

 need one or more stations in the northeast where 

 the reforestation movement is gaining considerable 

 momentum. The expenditure of money on wrong 

 methods is the greatest blow at true progress. 



And lastly we must attempt to develop a market 

 for wood now wasted during the processes of lum- 

 bering and manufacture. It is the poorest sort of 

 economy to grow trees at great expense, and then 

 throw away more than half of the wood content 

 merely to obtain a few good boards. Yet that is 

 exactly what happens today. We have seen that, if 

 the lumber industry were located nearer its market, 

 a considerable improvement in this situation would 

 naturally follow. But it is not enough. The United 

 States Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, 

 Wisconsin, pays a great deal of attention to the 

 wood utilization problem and has been most bene- 

 ficial to the whole country through its experiments 

 in finding new ways to use the odds and ends from 

 logging and sawing operations. If we are to main- 

 tain our present standards of living, wood prices 



