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BULLETIN 1241, U. B. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
and character of the dependence of the United Slates for the wood required 
in our paper is further shown iu Figure G, while the part of total requirements 
secured from domestic and foreign sour is is £ wn in Tables 10, 11, and 12. 
This general background affords a better basis for the consideration of pulp- 
wood imports. 
PULP WOOD. 
It took 9, 148,000 cords of wood to supply our 1922 paper requirements, of 
which about 4.49S,000 cords were cut from our own forests. We exported an 
equivalent of 235,000 cords. Pulp-wood imports amounted to nearly 1,045,000 
cards (Table 34) and hence furnished II per cent of all the wood required and 
19 per cent of all the pulp w h . cried in American mills. The remainder of 
our requirements, equivalent to 3,840,900 cords, was imported as pulp and 
paper. 
MiLUION 
CORDS 
9 
8 
7 
SOURCE OF THE PULPWOOD, WOOD PULP AND PAPER 
CONSUMED IN THE UNITED STATES 
1925 
Fig. 6L— Increasing inputs, particularly since 1909, have coi si entirely of pulp and paper, 
These products are being manufactured in other countries near the forests on « 
Total Canadian imports are nearly as large as the contribution from American forests. The 
shown in cumulative curves. 
We import pulp wood from Canada alone, since it is the only country witl 
suitable timber supplies near enough to make the payment of the freight cost 
economical. Pulp-wood importations began about 1S05 in significant quantity 
and increased until about 1910, when they slightly exceeded 930,000 i 
• that date there has beeE relatively little change, [1 was on -May 1, 10K 
the pulp-wood embargo upon the Crown lands of Quebec, the Car 
mis to the Uni 
' pulp-wood imports - roughly with the first part 
! during which the American h dustr; v. 
Imports began when American manufacturers were able to - 
iber more easily than American, and when I began to realize the 
ations in their own holdings and tn American re of their own regions; 
.( e * ith a mount of fir, v 
tp-wood Id ;;d which 
d mechanical pulp. The rej 
i ,>ulp. 
