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lyn, East Brookljm and Curtis Bay are two yards, a box factory and a 

 large ear and foundry manufactory. The lumber and timber cut dis- 

 poses annually of 1,099,610 cubic feet of wood, while so-called wood- 

 using industries require yearly more than 1,500,000 cubic feet. Of 

 this last, 11 per cent is locally produced, showing that in the markets 

 for Anne Arundel county wood there is opportunity for some develop- ' 

 ment. 



The cut from the present forested area exceeds the growth by 86.8 

 per cent ; salable wood and timber in different forms brought $130,099 

 to county residents in the year 1914, while other products not sold but 

 used at home were worth as much or more to the farmers who were 

 the chief users. With practical, up-to-date methods of agriculture 

 extended to include the woodlot, present revenues may be increased 

 and assured. Eight handling may double present production, but 

 without such care the returns from the sale and use of forest products 

 will manifest a steady decrease. The present area of forest land wiU 

 be reduced, as it should be, by the clearing of land which may grow 

 good crops, but it should in every case be offset by better management, 

 and the reforestation of some, at least, of the 42,000 acres of Anne 

 Arundel soils now classed as waste. 



