perous business, especially when they have an established reputation 

 which brings a demand for tneir services in solving particularly im- 

 portant problems. 



The operation of private holdings is likely to tend more and more 

 toward conservation practices. This development will probably be 

 accompanied by a growth in cooperative timber production and mar- 

 keting associations among small landholders and farmers. Already, 

 some mills are being supplied with needed timber through such organi- 

 zations. A few cooperatives operate their own sawmills or wood-proc- 

 essing plants. Trained foresters are employed by the cooperatives in 



Figure 9.— A forest-products researcher at work— inspecting paper sheets as they go 

 through a machine to be made into "papreg," a paper plastic developed at the 

 Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wis. 



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