THE TRAINING OF A FORESTER 



of forest growth, about thirty-six cubic feet 

 per person where we now use 250. 



Our individual consumption could easily 

 be reduced to 150 or even 100 cubic feet per 

 inhabitant per year without hardship by the 

 use of substitutes and the elimination of 

 waste. 



We use now, on the average, only about 

 one-half of the total volume of every tree. 

 The rest is wasted, or left in the woods. 



Forest fires still destroy every year about 

 twelve billion board feet of timber, or more 

 than one-fourth of the amount sawed in our 

 mills. 



The product of the lumber industry in 

 1909 was valued by the Census at $1,156,- 

 000,000, which in amount was exceeded 

 among the manufacturing industries only by 

 meats and metals. In the number of men 

 employed (over 900,000) the lumber in- 

 dustry comes first. 



There are two and a third billion dollars 



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