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benefit expressed in the term " forestry." They are in favor of forest 

 reserves, properly administered, in certain portions of the country 

 where such reserves will do the most good. They indorse the wisest 

 and most thorough economy in the management of their own forest 

 holdings. They would be glad of any plan for economical cutting 

 and marketing that would be an improvement on present methods. 

 Indeed, the tentative efforts that have been made in these directions 

 by owners of yellow-pine stumpage in the South proves this. These 

 owners have seen how northern pine has been slaughtered to near 

 exhaustion and wish to avoid such a precipitate, headlong rush 

 toward the end. 



GEORGE H. EMERSON, 



Vice-President Northwestern Lumber Company. 



* * * To teach the people to utilize the product of our forests 

 by clearing the land of all things of value is one of the great duties 

 of those who are anxious to see our forests perpetuated. * * * 

 The bark of our hemlock is superior in tanning qualities; tanning- 

 extract plants could help solve the problem; pulp mills could use to 

 advantage our hemlock and waste spruce; fir tops, stumps, and 

 roots are well supplied with pitch, and experiment indicates that the 

 values obtained from those sources in turpentine, tar, pitch, rosin, 

 wood alcohol, creosote and other chemicals, lampblack, and charcoal 

 are greater than the balance of the tree affords in lumber. * * * 



When our timber is utilized as our cattle and hogs are utilized, and 

 every part saved, the other things required to perpetuate our western 

 Washington forests will follow as good investments. 



JOHN A. McCANN, 



Editor National Coopers' Journal. 



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 The cooperage people who own timber, and timber owners gener- 

 ally, should be educated to their necessities in three ways : First, the 

 need of an intelligent appreciation of the value of timber; second, 

 the need of caring for timber from a physical standpoint; third, 

 the manner in which to accomplish these ends. * * * Necessity 

 has compelled us to see that beech, maple, and birch will take the 

 place of elm and bassw^ood for slack cooperage Avork, and we are also 

 learning that gum, when properly handled, will make the best of 

 barrels, and I presume that there are other timbers growing in our 

 forests that only need intelligent handling to become equally valu- 

 able. Whatever the American Forestry Association or the Bureau 

 of Forestry can do to demonstrate this, to prevent waste and destruc- 

 tion by fire and parasites, and to renew supplies, will be work well 

 done. 



