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Improved timber harvesting and utilization methods mean increased income to farmers, 

 whose woodland holdings throughout the country amount to 185 million acres. 



vast aggregate acreage of woodlands; to 

 local communities, counties, States, and 

 the Nation, all of which have a vital in- 

 terest in stable revenues from forests, 

 forest lands, and successful forest indus- 

 tries. In our national forests alone, the 

 investment in land and timber and the 

 responsibility for a wise utilization of 

 the products require a broad program of 

 research looking to the broadening and 

 stabilization of markets for forest 

 products. 



Purpose of 

 Laboratory research 



Answering to these major economic 

 needs, the research of the Forest Prod- 

 ucts Laboratory is directed toward the 

 better and more efficient and diversified 

 utilization of forest materials. Scien- 

 tific research is the means that must be 

 used to gain a more thorough knowledge 

 of wood in its chemistry, growth, and 

 structure, and to determine the techni- 



America's huge volumes of logging and sawmill wastes are potential sources of 



useful products. 



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