In that region there are more than 30,000,000 acres of waste forest lands which should be reclaimed and devoted to the growing of trees.

Eastern and middle western manufacturing and lumbering centres are interested in the restoring of the southern pine forests.

During the last score of years, they have used two-thirds of the annual output of those forests.

In another ten to fifteen years home demand will use most of the pine cut in the South.

The East and Middle West will then have to rely mostly on the Pacific Coast forests for their pine lumber.
The Lake States need a forest experiment station to work out methods by which the white pine, hemlock, spruce, beech, birch and maple forests of that section can be renewed.