Timber ls a Crop -The Harvest ls Homes

ders on their peaks, are especially prominent in the Willamette Valley and Southern Oregon. On Puget Sound and Grays Harbor the great waterways carry floating islands of fir, hemlock, cedar and spruce logs.

"It's like stacking hay for winter feeding," says Kenneth Murdock, a forester whose business is checking log inventories in the fir region. "The loggers cut and store logs to feed the building market. They have faith in the future building demands for lumber."

Recently Forester Murdock put on his store clothes between trips to the timber and paid a visit to an apartmentdwelling project near Seattle. He talked logging and forestry to the carpenters on the big building job and the carpenters talked about the use of lumber in the woodframe units to him. Murdock returned to the woods with a new vision of the great log islands and mountains in winter storage.

Mighty mountcins of logs hcve been piled the length ol the Wegt Cocrgt to keep the mills humming cll winter in the ncrking oI lumber Ior home building. Here c Douglcs fir loresier ccllg on ccqrentere who cne working on one ol the 700 units oI cn cpcrtment house proiect. The logs in this picture would qII be needed io provide the lumber Ior 700 dwellings. In the bcckground youag Douglcrs 6rs trre growing to provide wood lor the homeg oI the luture.

Large islands of logs in water, mountains of logs in dry storage to keep the sawmills of the West Coast producing through the worst of winter weather, are a common sight nowadays in the Douglas fir region.

The log mountains, some with huge and power{ul skid-

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"I now see a cold deck of logs," says the forester, "in terms of stacks of dimension lumber and sheathing on the home-building site. A project of 700 units really represents a log mountain."

There are now 2,700 technically trained foresters in private employment throughout the country. There are 34 forestry schools in our universities and state colleges. America's forestry programs are assurance of good forest matragement on both private and public lands, for improvement of forest products and the growing of adequate timber crops for the country's future home-building needs.

Riverside Hoo-Hoo Hold Meeting qt Hemet

The Riverside Hoo-Hoo Clubmet at the Allqsandro Hotel, Hemet, Friday evening, C)ctober 28. Dinner was served at 7:29 p.m., and was followed by a concatenation. There was a good turnout of Old Cats for the occasion.

Stcrtement oI Income

Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 9.-Weyerhaeuser Timber Company reported net earnings of $5.45 a share for the first nine months ol 1949, in a statement of consolidated income issued to shareholders today.

The company reported sales of lumber, lumber products, logs and pulp totalling $91,339,204, and other income (net) totaling $3,266,925 for the first nine months of 1949. Net income was $17,037,823 lor the nine months' period.

The firm's quarterly reports supplement annual financial statements and are subject to adjustment at year's end after accounts have been examined by independent oublic accountants.

Christmcs With Dickens

Nurrierous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief season of happiness and enjoyment. How many families whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggle of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pirre and unalloyed delight, and one so incompatible with cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first days of a future state of existence, provided for the blest and happy.

How many old recollections andhow many dormant sympathies, Christmas time awakens ! We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and joyous circle. Many of the hearts that throbbed so gaily then, have ceased to beat; many of the looks that shone so brightly then, have ceased to glow. The hands we grasped have grown cold. The eyes we sought, have hid their lustre in thegrave.Andyet the old house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, thejest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected with those happy meetings, crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home !-Charles

Dickens.

Christmcrs Turkey Protests

How blessed, how envied were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife ! But man, cursed man, on turkeys preys, And Christmas shortens all our days: Sometimes with oysters we combine, Sometimes assist the savory chine; From the low peasant to the lord, The turkey smokes on every board.

-Alfred Domett.

King of Kings

What babe new born is this that in a manger cries?

Near on her lowly bed His happy mother lies. Oh, see the airis shaken withwhite heavenly wings ! This is the Lord of all the earth ! This is the King of Kings !

Christmas Night

I{ere, there, everywhere, Christmas tonight ! Christmas in lands of the fir tree and pine, Christmas in lands of the palm tree and vine; Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and white, Christmas where corn fields lie sunny and bright.

-Phillips Brooks.

Eqchto His Iob

It was Christmas dinner, and the lovely young thing was partaking rather lightly of the delicious food with which the table was heaped.

The adoring young man said to her: "Why don't you eat more of this wonderful food?"

She said: "I have to watch my figure."

"Go ahead and eat all youwantto,bright eyes," he said; "I'11 watch your figure."

Christmas in England

England was merry England when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer, The poor man's heart through half the year.

Scott in Marmion.

-Walter

A Christmcrs Thought

Lord, when we cry Thee far and near, And thunder through all lands unknown, The Gospel into every ear, Lord, let us not forget our own ! Cleanse us from ire of creed or class, The anger of the idle kinds; Sow in our souls, like living grass, rhe raught" "-11.t?]t#.L?i;"".

All You Ccrn

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, As long as ever you can.

-John WesleY.

He Understood

Soldier: "I like the shy, demure type of girl."

Sailor' ('l\l[s 1se-the kind vou have to whistle at twice."

South Sets Reforestation Record

fn a remarkable expansion of reforestation ofold fields and idle forest lands in 12 Southern States during the past winter and spring planting season, industry playecl an outstanding part according to a survey released by the Southern Pine Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

State Forestry Departments produced and distribute<i from 19 state-operated nurseries 154,779,526 forest tree seedlings. This compares with the 1947-48 season's production of 98,424,000 seedlings from 15 State nurseries. Private industry purchased for planting on company lands and for free distribution to small landowners 82,032,600 seedlings-53/o ol thetotal State nursery production in the 1948-49 planting season. According to State Foresters reports of seedlings purchased, the pulp and paper industry acccunted for 26.2/o, the lumber industry 16.4% and all other industries IO.4/o of total industry purchases. Approximately 80,000 acres of industry orvned lands were reforested while over 9,000,000 forest tree seedlings were distributed free to small landowners by the lumber and pulp and paper industries. States covered in the survev included Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tenncssce, Tcxas and Virginia.

The survey also revealed thatthe lumber industry is already planning for the coming season and will continue to playan important role in the program of reforesting lands in the South. With the next planting season still some months away, 69 lumber manufacturers have already signified their intentions to purchase more than 2 ,000,000 seedlings.

South Carolina led all Southern States for the 1948-49 season with 32,093,750 seedlings. Georgia ranked seconcl with 27,362,203 and Alabama and Florida ran a close third and fourth place rvith 19.821,927 and 19,573,185 seedlings respectively. State Foresters estimates of production at 20 nurseries during this year indicate an even larger rcforestation program during the coming planting season. The 1949-50 production figures indicate that more than 234,000,000 forest tree seedlings will be available for distribution to landorvners from State nurseries. Georgia's 3 nurseries show a step-up in production to 55,000,000 seedlings with noticeable increases also indicated for l\{ississippi and Louisiana with expected production of. 25 million and 34 million seedlings respectively.

In addition to seedlings purchased from state-owned nurseries, thepulp and paper industry planted over 13 n-rillior-r seedlings grown in company-owned nurseries and the lumber industry planted over 2 2/3 mrllion seedlings grown in company nurseries and purchased from other sources.

An analysis of planting by the lumber industry alone sho'ivs that over 28,000 acres of company:owned lands 'ivere reforested by 122 manufacturers in the 12 States. 60 of these manufacturers are members of the Southern Pine Association whose plantings accounted for 8O/o of the total. Texas lumber manufacturers ranked first r,vith a planting of more than 7 million seedlings on company

\(illis Branch Appointed For Forest Co-op Work

San Francisco, Nov. l-Selection of Willis C. Branch as assistant regional forester in charge of State and privatt: forestry activities of the California region of U.S. Foresi Service was anounced tcday by Regional Forester Perry A. Thompson. Mr. Branch will take over Dec. 1 as successor to \\r. S. Swingler, lvho recentty became regior al forester at Philadelphia.

Mr. Branch, 18 years in the Forest Service, has worked out of Washington, D.C. headquarters since 1945, inspecting and aiding prograrns under cooperative agreements l>etu'een the Federal and State g'overnments for protecting State and private forests against fire. He comes to California rvith a close working knorvledge of its problems, having spent considerable time .ivorking rvith State and Federal forestry officials here. He recently completed a special study of rvatershed areas in California r,vhich are being consi<lered for cooperative fire protection.

After obtaining forestry degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard Graduate Forestry School, he joined the Forest Service in 1931, t'orked np from district ranger to forest su1>ervisor in southern states, and became inspector of state cooperative fire control rvork in 11 southern states.

In his nerv assignment at the San Francisco regional office, Mr. Branch 'ivill work u'ith State oflicials in all phases of cool>erative forestry, including forest fire protection anri the promotion of good forest practices in California and southrvestern Nevada.

One o[ Nature's Masterpaeces

Nfany lut.nbermen have been admiring a rlc\v u'alnut table u'hich has recently been added to the mair-r office of Strable llardu.ood Company, Oakland. The top is made of one solid piece of American Walnut and is 4" thick, 25" wide, ancl l0 feet long. Jint Overcast says "It is one of Nature's masterpieces, since it is clear and all heari, black wood rvith a beautiful figure." Modernistic square lcgs 18" x 18" support the top n'hich u'eighs 315 pounds rtnd contains 83 board feet. The 'rvalnut r,vas taken fronr Strable's regnlar stock ir-r 7929 and has been considererl n nluseum piece during recent years.

To cnter the main Strable ofifice fron"r the l'arehouses iris tlorv necessary to pass through a doonvay t.hich has bcen cttt ir-r a piece of Clear Sugar pine t'hich is |fu" x 55" r.vidc x 16 feet containir-rg 92 board feet ancl rveighing 185 pounds. Lovers of the unusual in rvood are invitecl trr call and inspect these u'onders of the r,vorld.

lands while Georgia manufacturers placed second with more than 5 million seedlings, and Alabama and Arkansas third and fourth rvith 4,740,000 and slightly over 4 million seedlings respectively

Purveyors