How the Forests Are Wasted 



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11. ir. Fairbanks 

 The shake maker wastes the larger part of a great sugar pine that has been a thousand 

 years in growing, 



passer-by may drop a lighted match or cigarette, and 

 you can easily form a picture in your mind of what 

 happens. 



In the countries of Europe lumbermen are very careful ; 

 not a particle of the cut tree goes to waste. The logs are 

 sawed without removing what we call "slabs." The saw- 

 dust is saved and used in the manufacture of wood alcohol. 

 If we saved all the present waste in the logging and milling 

 of our pines, we could make all the turpentine needed in our 

 country. If we saved what is now wasted of the poplar 

 and spruce, we should have material enough to make all 

 the paper we use. 



There are still large and valuable forests in the Southern 

 Appalachian Mountains, in the Rocky Mountains, the 

 Sierra Nevada-Cascade Range, and the Coast Ranges. 



