Merry Ghristmas

Large cork oaks, surrounded by several hundred seedlings, have been found growing near Columbia, South Carolina. The world supply of raw cork, now cut off by the war, has come from the bark of a species of evergreen or "live" oak which grows thickly on about 5 million acres of mountainous forestland in Spain, Portugal, and North Africa. In ordinary times the United States imported $10,000,000 worth of cork a year. Such discoveries as the Carolina cork oaks lead forest products industry scientists to believe that the cork oak can be cultivated in the United States, as part of the industry's "tree-farming" program.

Wood

The allocation of wood pulp is placed on a quarterly basis beginning Jan. l, 1944. (General Preference Order M-93, as amended), issued Nov. 3O.