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CHAPTER IV 



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The Forest Industries 60 



Economic Importance of Forest Industries — Some of the Minor 

 Branches-^Wood Pulp — Fuel — The Lumber Business — Hard and 

 Soft Woods, So-called — Little to Learn from Europe — How Long 

 will the Original Supply Last? — Substitutes for Wood — How 

 Lumbering is Carried on — Recent Changes in Method — Rafting 

 — Booms and Dams — At the Mill — Grades of Lumber — Logging 

 Railways — The Cruiser — The Lumber Camp— The River Drive 

 — Lumbering in the South and on the Pacific Coast — Scaling 

 Logs — Lumber Business Indispensable to the Nation. 



CHAPTER V 



Destruction and Deterioration . . . -89 



Erroneous Notions — Great Area of Woodland still in Existence 

 — Disappearance of Merchantable Timber — Legitimate Removal 

 of Forest — Causes of Forest Destruction — Woodland Wastes — 

 The Principal Guilt with the American People — The Forest Fires 

 — Origin of Fires — How Small Fires Become Large — Damage 

 Done by Fire — ^Villages Destroyed — Lives Lost — Some Great Con- 

 flagrations — Attitude of the Settlers — Comparative Immunity of 

 Broad-leaved Forests — Reforestation of Burnt-over Areas — In- 

 jury by Pasturing Cattle. 



CHAPTER VI 



Forests and Forestry 121 



What Forestry Is Not, and What It Is — Not a New Thing in 

 tKe United States — Reform !Neede_d — The Art of Utilizing 

 Forests — Divers Uses of Forests — ^Annual Revenues from Perma- 

 nent Forests — Incidental Uses of Forests — Private and Public 

 Interest in Forests — Different Forms of Forest Policy — Protective 

 Forests — Misunderstandings — Silviculture — Financial Considera- 

 tions. 



CHAPTER VII 

 Forest Finance and Management . , . .140 



Forestry and Agriculture — When the Crop Is Ripe— Biological 

 Factors — Yield Tables — Financial Factors — Market Price — 

 Transportation — Forest Management — Working Plans — Rota- 



