WHY GROW TIMBER? 9 
American markets. With one exception these are the only impor- 
tant reserves of the softwood timber that comprises more than two- 
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ic. 3.—If the mills are to be kept going timber must be grown. Supplies for the 
hungry pulp mill, A, and the voracious sawmill, B, must be obtained sooner or 
later from forests so managed, C, as to produce regular crops 
thirds of our present consumption. That exception is northern 
Europe, whose surplus is all needed by the wood-hungry countries 
of southern and western Europe. 
