of her lumber, while New York cuts less than one-half the timber she annually consumes.
Another experiment station should be provided to study the forestry problems of Pennsylvania, southern and western New York, Ohio, Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware.

At one time this region was the most important lumber centre of the United States.
Pennsylvania spends $100,000,000 a year in importing lumber which should be grown at home.

The denuded and waste lands at the headwaters of the Allegheny River now extend over one-half million acres.

New Jersey is using more than twenty times as much lumber as is produced in the state.

Ohio is a centre for wood manufacturing industries, yet her timber-producing possibilities are neglected, as are those of other states needing wood for similar purposes.
European nations have spent large sums of money in investigating forestry problems to make timber producing economically feasible, and have found that it paid.