poplar for pulpwood. Their first plantation, recently cut, returned
a yield of pulpwood in excess of expectations. Deducting all costs
of planting, care and logging, from the value of the pulpwood at
the mill showed a fair net profit. The company sees an opportunity
for supplying their mill through reforestation at lower than present
prevailing pulpwood prices in spite of the difficulties which are being
encountered. In the Lake states many companies such as the Cor-
nell Wood Products Company, the Kimberly Clark Company, the
Marathon Paper Mills Company and the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper
Company are adopting forestry measures in handling their wood
lands.
In the South, the Southern Paper Company, a subsidiary of the
Great Southern Lumber Company, has undertaken an intensive
planting program on tax contract lands. The Champion Fibre
Company in North Carolina sees in reforestation of its spruce and
poplar stands its best opportunity for permanently sustained mill
operation. Many other companies like the Hammermill Paper
Company, the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company, and the
Bedford Pulp and Paper Company are undertaking extensive for-
estry measures.
The Naval Stores Industry of the South has been aroused. A
research institute is being organized by the industry, and one of its
major projects is to work out methods of forestry practice for suc
cessive crops of pine for turpentining. Recently a large naval stores
distributing company purchased nearly 200,000 acres of pine lands
and placed a competent forester in charge to manage the areas
as a permanent source of naval stores.
Other wood-using industries, like wood turning, cooperage,
novelty, handle and vehicle stock manufacturers are supporting the
general forestry movement and many individual companies have
undertaken some form of management of its lands. The Pennsyl-
vania coal companies, forced to import much of their mine timber
from the South, have taken an advanced stand on forestry, and
many are planting up areas which have been denuded by fire. Dur.
ing the past spring thirty-seven mining companies planted more
than 1,565,000 trees on their property, making a total of over eight
million forest trees which have been supplied to mining companies
from the state nurseries up to the present time.
No discussion of commercial forestry would be complete with-
out mention of the work done by many educational institutions, of
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