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under which planting is advisable, It summarizes both for technical and regional 

 conditions, and for various classes of owners. The startling statement is made, 

 and substantiated by figures, that $65,000,000 is lost annually through allowing 

 denuded and potential forest lands to remain unproductive. The urgent need 

 of a definite financial plan for the acquirement and reforestation of denuded 

 lands by the Federal and State Governments, and for assistance to private owners, 

 is pointed out. Several plans covering these points are outlined. 



To the main report is added an appendix, which treats in detail of the com- 

 mercial conditions under which planting is commercially feasible in various 

 regions. 



Owing to the absence of Mr. E. H. Clapp on official duty in the West, 

 Prof. S. N. Spring, of Cornell University, served as acting chairman and prepared 

 the main body of the report. 



Committee 8. 

 FOREST UTILIZATION 



Chairman, R. S. Kellogg Secretary, Northern Hemlock and Hard- 

 wood Association, Wausau, Wis. 



Bruce Odell Cummer-Diggins Company, Cadillac, Mich. 



W. C. Miles Manager, West Coast Lumber Manufactur- 

 ers' Association, Tacoma, Wash. 



E. A. Ziegler Professor, Mt. Alto Forest Academy, Mt. 



Alto, Pa. 



topics assigned 



1. Closer utilization in logging. 



3. Closer utilization in manufacturing. 



3. Closer utilization in marketing. 



4. The preservative treatment of timber. 



This subject, in common with lumbering, properly requires field study by a 

 paid man in order to procure and compile satisfactory data, and the two lines of 

 investigations could be combined. 



The report of the sub-committee for this year describes clearly the economic 

 limitations to the closer utilization of timber, and to some extent touches on the 

 unapplied possibilities in the line of utilization. The actual developments are 

 contingent on commercial conditions and also influenced to some extent by lack 

 of information. Apropos of the latter, the synopsis of the report states that 

 "The lumber industry needs more information than is yet available upon the 

 merchantable products than can be obtained from trees of various kinds and 

 sizes. Further investigations should be made of the costs of manufacturing 

 many by-products, and of the conditions under which such operations are suc- 

 cessful. The effect of unrestrained competition in timber exploitation upon our 

 forest resources should receive serious study." 



The portion of the report dealing with the conditions which prevent closer 

 utilization is in effect a reply to the unjust popular opinion that the lumberman is 

 responsible, either deliberately or otherwise, for the wastage of 50 per cent to 75 



