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;st grades could be sold. Things have been 
langing during the last few years, however, for 
lie timber supply is dwindling and prices of 
rest products are rising to a point that per- 
its a fuller utilization of timber. 
“Waste has been reduced because conditions 
ow make it profitable to use much of the 
uff that was formerdy left in woods. Im- 
-oved saw-mill machinery is also playing an 
iportant part in the matter of the closer utili- 
ition of the tree. Better work in the woods, 
:duction of mill waste and protection of tim- 
ix holdings from fire are going a long way to- 
ard conserving our forest resources. 
“Do not think from this that all of the old- 
me practices have ceased or that all who are 
itting our forests are practicing forestry—not 
1, nor maybe the majority, but the number is 
icreasing, for the wide-awake men are learn- 
ig that conservative lumbering pays. _ A pro- 
ressive Pennsylvania firm manufacturing lum- 
er, lath and shingles outlines its policy as 
dlows: 
“ ‘We have always pursued a conservative 
iurse in lumbering, taking care of our tim¬ 
er and striving to keep out the fire. Any 
mber that blows down or should be burned 
e gather up at once and always, so far as 
ossible, all trees struck by lightning. 
“ ‘We manufacture with thin saws, band and 
angs. We strive to do our work as well as 
aybody can, and take pride in the fact that we 
m furnish anything in white oak, white pine, 
r hemlock, that any firm can east of the Rocky 
Fountains and at any time.. We make all our 
th from the slabs and edgings, making about 
x and a half millions a year. The balance of 
le hemlock slabs and edgings, after taking out 
le lath, we load up and send to the pulpwood 
iill, about 6,000 cords per year. Our shingles 
-ire made from broken pieces, forks and hollow 
utts, about six million per year. We also 
ather up the tops and breaks and limbs of the 
emlock and hardwood timber left in the slash- 
lgs, using all but the oak, hickory and chest- 
ut, and send that to the pulp mills, about 5.000 
ords of 160 cubic feet each, per year. This 
athers up the refuse in the forest so well that 
lere is little fuel to make a destructive forest 
re. 
“ ‘Every man in our employ for the past 
lirty years has had positive orders when he 
-ees a smoke start on our land or any one 
dse’s to drop his work at once and go put. that 
re out. If he hasn’t help sufficient to do it, to 
[end to the office and we will give him men 
nough to put it out. In this way we have 
ived nearly all our land from devastation by 
re. It is coming up well in second growth, 
; f which we do not cut any., 
i “ ‘A question of taxation is a very serious 
ne. Timber land has been assessed and taxed 
0 high that the owners have been compelled 
5 cut it off and could not hold it. Our recent 
iw permits some concession on thirty acres of 
,md only to one owner where kept in grow- 
, lg timber. If taxation of growing timber were 
Hwer, owners would not be compelled to cut 
1 so rapidly. So far we have not succeeded in 
ny legislation for the prevention of forest fires 
rat amounts to anything. If the fire can be 
ept out and taxation reduced, with judicious 
utting, there is no reason why Pennsylvania 
i bould not have timber sufficient for all time.’ 
“Statements like these,” continued the 
[ wester, “show that practical men of the lum- 
r er industry at present are different from the 
{ld-timers who went into the forest, slashed 
way to their heart’s content, and told the 
orld that the timber resources of the United 
tates were inexhaustible. Although a con- 
iderable proportion of our future supply will 
I ome from National and State forests, the great 
ulk of our timberland is in private hands, and 
luch of the lumber used by the next genera- 
on will come from it. While there are un- 
uestionably short years ahead for us, we can 
ventually produce all the timber we really need 
we go at it in the right fashion. This Penn- 
vlvania firm is on the right track, and many 
■ ther timberland owners will introduce similar 
lethods of conservation and ^ise utilization as 
Don as conditions become such that they can 
1 fford to do so.” 
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