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third or fourth growth land -- what we call scrub growth
which has grown up on it. What does that consist of?
Probably an average of four or five thousand trees to the
acre; little bits of trees, saplings and so forth.
Proper forestation is not possible; in other words, you
will never get a marketable timber growth on that kind of
land -- plenty of cordwood and that is about all.
But the timber supply, the lumber supply of the country,
at the present rate of cutting we are using lumber some-
where around three to four times the rate of the annual
growth. In other words, we are rapidly coming to an
end of the natural lumber resources and the end is within
sight and, unless something is done about it, we will
become a very large lumber importing nation, the figures
showing that it will be from 20 to 40 years when that
will come about.
Now, take this second, third, fourth growth land.
Put men in there. Say there are five thousand of these
saplings to the acre. Go in and cut out four thousand
and leave one thousand. They go in there and take out
the crooked trees, the dead trees, the bushes and stuff
like that that has no value as lumber, and leave approxi-
mately one thousand trees to the acre. That means that
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