This use of lumber includes general mill work and planing mill products, such as building crates and boxes, vehicles, railroad cars, furniture, agricultural implements and wooden ware.
Our manufacturers make and use more than two hundred and seventy-five different kinds of paper, including newsprint, boxboard, building papers, book papers and many kinds of specialty papers.

The forest experiment stations would help solve the practical problems of these many industries.

They could work out methods by which to maintain our forests and still turn out the thirty-five to forty billion board feet of lumber used each year.

They are needed to determine methods of increasing our annual cut for pulp and paper.

They are necessary so that we can increase our annual output of poles, pilings, cooperage and veneer.
A forest experiment station is needed in the southern pine belt.
The large pine forests of Dixieland have been shaved down from 130,000,000 acres to 23,500,000 acres.