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Forestry in Poland

Washington, September 17.-At the annual meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce at Brussels, last July, the National Lumber Manufacturers Association was represented by S. O. Johnson, an American lumberman residing in Paris.

Afterthe Brussels meeting Mr. Johnsoh went to Poland, and in a recent letter he described that tripin a way that isof peculiar interest to American lumbermen' Following is an extract from Mr. Johnson's letter:

"In the first place I went to visit a forest that wa,q formerly-the huntins ground of the Kings of Poland. After Poland ceased to exist als i nation this foresl became the hunting grounds of the Czars of Russra, and according to such-information as I could get, ii appears there had been nothing cut in this forest for about 300 vear-i The Czars of Russia maintained in this forest a herd of 90O 6uffalos, the only buffalos in Europe, and I lelieve the largest h-erd in the world. The cost of feeding these buffalos and looking after them was very great indeed. Their care required the services of a prince or two-and a number of counts. In the cen'er of this forest ihe Czars had built a castle which is very magnificient. When the Germans arrived upon the scene, during the recent War Von Hindenburg. during his campaign in Poland, made his headquarters in the Czir's castle and he proceeded to kill all the bufralos for food, at the same time ridding himself of the expense of maintaining them. Inasmuch as the forest looked very good to the Germans they decided to exploit it, and built three sawmills, so-called. These sanimills employ the "gang," which is prev?lent in Europe. It does not oscillate. It is merely a frame chugging up and down with a few saws in it. It eventually wears its way through the log. There are no headsaws.to provide cants for these gangs, and the logs are run first to make the slab and then are run through again to make the lumber.

"The Germans built three sawmills, so-called, as I say again, in all containing about 18 or 20 of these "frames," as they call them in this country. They did not succeed in getting rnuch lumber cut and, as a matter of fact, they just abogt got started when the War turned the other way.

"Now t\e remarkable part of all of the above that I have written is this: The area of this forest is 300,000 acres solid, with only onc clearing in the center where the castle stands. I calculated that there were 250,000 acres in this one forest that would average between 20,0fi) and 25,fiD feet to the acre of timber that runs 707o Norway pine, or rrhat they know over here as Sylvester pine. However, most of the Sylvester pine rn Europe is between fifty and seventy-five years old, while the Sylvester pine in the forest referred to is from 200 to 3fi) years old. The remaining 3OVo of the trees is very excellent quality white oak, ash and maple, with a few. other hardwoods. The grouhd is just as level as the wheat fields of North Dakota.

"Recently the Polish Government has given a concession to cut 400,0O0 cubic meters per year from this forest, whitch amounts to about f20,000,000 board feet, perhaps a little more. Of course, this cannot be done with the sawmills now existing. The price paid for this timber is .cheaper than Southern pine, and labor conditions are the finest that I have ever seen anywhere, as labor is both abundant and efficient. The railroad rates also are reasonable.

"I have spoken of only one forest, but there are a number of others, The other forests are somewhat younger but excellent. There is really an abundance of timber in Poland. This timber is cut under government regulations, reprcsenting very largely the German system. They cut strips of these forests approximatel5r two miles long and one-eight of a mile wida Then they leave a strip the same size and cut another strip, and so on. Or they sometimes leave two or three strips and take out one strip. The timber that is cut is cut clean, with absolutely everythlng on the ground taken away. They figure that the standing strips will reseed the strips that have been cut."

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