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other mineral resources in plenty. But T^ithout timber, it' s impossible to 

 use tlic substitutes. The few coal mines tliat are developed depend largely 

 on inported timber for props, la4;ging, and other needed construction 

 material. The railroads that carry the coal run on wooden ties brought 

 in from Manchuria, Japan, or North America. Small native iron foundri6Q- 

 use charroal brought for many long miles on boats and on men' s backs. 

 Domestic iron and coal, therefore, are produced only in small quantities 

 and are so costly that they can hardly compete in the seapart cities uith 

 the iron and steel brought from llorth America and from Europe. 



well, there's the lesson there's the situation in a country that 



wasted its wood supplies. What's the moral, so far as the United States 

 axe concerned? 



But vdth all this, we are still going to need plenty of wood in this 

 country. Even if our PER CAPITA consunption should fall as low as present 

 European standards, the increase in population which is likely to take place 

 in the next 50 years will keep our timber requirements at a level little, if 

 any, below our present timber needs. Furthermore, it often takes wood to make 

 the very things which are designed to take the place of wood. The coal mines 

 of the United States alone consume a billion board feet of lumber a year. 

 And of course we are constantly increasing and broadening the uses for ?rood. 

 As our cities grow, more and more wood will be needed to make the containers 

 in which their food is shipped in from the producing sections. 



All this brings ^^s down to a rather obvious moral: GROW MORE 700D 

 OR ELSE USE LESS. We will always need our forests. We should, therefore, 

 conserve and maintain them. 



AIJITOUI'CEI ZITT ; That was the Wilds Man you just heard, tailing you to Washington 

 for your regular weekly visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists. His talk is 



broadcast by Station every Friday, in cooperation with the U. S. 



Department of Agriculture. Write to the Forest Service of the Department, 

 Washington, D. C, if you want still more facts and figures on the future 

 of Airier ica' s wood-pile. 



