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frlewy @bristmax
Forest Facts and Figures
More than 8,000,000 acres of privately owned forests are now "Tree Farms," dedicated to continuous production of forest crops. Looks like we don't have to worrv about a. successor to Charlie McCarthy.
Celluloid, the first plastic, was developed in 1869 on a wood pulp base, as a result of a search for a substitute for ivory billiard balls-but they can't grow hair on plastics, either.
*,&rk fn an average year, about 43 per cent of the world's forest production comes from the United States-and we can hold our own in sap production, too. ***
Man learned how to make paper from wood by watching the wasp. By not watching the wasp, other men have got the point, too. *'F*
Under modern forest management, it is possible to take a harvest from the woods and still leave a forest growing.
R. Itl. Dalton & Go.
Lumber and Plywood
318 T7est fth Street
LOS ANGELES 15, CALIF.