Though lumber is still the most important product of the forest , it should 

 not be forgotten that over one-half of the timber consumed in the United 

 States is utilized for products other than lumber Among these products 

 are pulp, plywood P veneer, shingles 5 cooperage^, fuelwood, excelsior, char- 

 coal, and wood distillates Some of these uses are growing by leaps and 

 bounds o It is estimated that the pulp and paper industry used 1 , 215 9 000 , 000 

 cubic feet of wood in 1930 ( roughly 5 the equivalent of 6~3/4 billion board 

 feet) and will use twice that quantity by 1950 o 



Board-foot log rules are of little value to many wood-using industries 

 Pulp manufacturers r, for example $ are concerned with the actual amount of 

 wood rather than a hypothetical yield of 1-inch lumber 5 because they use 

 the entire volume in making chips or groundwood pulp Log rules are 

 poor indicators of cubical contents because they presuppose that lumber 

 is the final product and that its manufacture entails considerable waste 



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in the form of sawdust, slabs, and edgings „ Pulp manufacturers need a 

 unit of measure which tells them how much wood there is in a logs Board- 

 foot log rules do not do this Cubic measure does* 



