PART II 



BRITISH TIMBER SUPPLIES AND THE 

 FORESTS OF RUSSIA 



VI 



TIMBER SUPPLIES AND FAMINE PRICES 



What are we going to do about timber supplies both 

 in the near future and a more distant one ? 



This is one of the war problems which has received 

 but little attention until quite recently. We have so 

 long been accustomed to get all the timber we required 

 without trouble that we had come to forget that it 

 was practically all imports and that we grew but 

 little of the timber of commerce ourselves. And yet, 

 as will be shown, this material has come to be one of 

 the necessities of the warfare of the present day. 



In obtaining the supplies we have required we can- 

 not even be said to have " muddled along " satisfac- 

 torily, for we are simply living a hand-to-mouth 

 existence ; have been doing so for months ; and it is 

 proving a most costly experience. And there is every 

 probability of the position assuming a graver com- 

 plexion. It has been recently asserted by a prominent 

 expert in the timber trade that if the present demand 

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