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FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday, Jun t, 1950 r OutoctmeVJcods Marketing Woodlol Product! Well, here I am, hooked and hauled in, and the frying pan is already greased and sizzling over the fire. All of the storming around I've been doing about the neglect of the marketing side of farm forestry and other fores try, too has attracted profes sional attention, and I'm caught. Foresters Ralph De Moisy and John Allen of the State of Wash ington Institute of Forest Prod ucts, Anderson hall, University of Washington. Seattle 5, have produced a bulletin of 60 pages entitled "Marketing W o o d 1 o t Products in the State of Wash ington." I hasten to add that it is a book that is full of values for Oregon farm woodlot owners ton. outside the directory of mar kets for specific products and references to state laws. Its size is 6 by 9 inches, providing ade quate space for reproduction of important tables of information. For a single copy, write a post card request to the address as given, asking for bulletin No. 1. One reading will convince you, as it did me, ihat the booklet has double value. First, there is- the practical information k contains on how to sell from the woodlot. Second, there is the incentive it unfolds in behalf of productive farm forest management. Money Talks Technologist John W. Allen, the author of "Marketing Wood land Products." starts his job with a statement of a principle of forest economics that I call masterful and inspired. I am go ing to work to memorize it real work any time for me. "Marketing, the most impor tant step in the handling of for est products, ofen receives the least attention," savs the forth right and hard-thinking Mr. Al len. "Commonly, more value is i lost as a result of indifferent marketing practices , than from any other mismanagement of logging or wood manufacturing operations." That's what I've been trying to say for many years, in this space and elsewhere. The best I've said has been feeble and blurred beside this simple and cogent statement. We've all had the cart-before-the-hor.se habit on this ail-important element of the practice of forestry on com mercial forest lands, both indus trial and farm. Laziness was the probable cause all along. It is so simple and agreeable to assume a pose of authority before the for est owner and taxpayer and seek to take his hand in yours and lead him to do a good job of tree harvesting, tree growing and tree protection for virtue's sake alone. In the nature of things, how ever, the forester should ap proach the forest owner up the market road, bringing news of whta can be sold in market places near and far, what money will be offered for each forest product brought to the market, and what the market prospects are for grow ing forest products lor imure harvests. Money talks with more elo quence, persuasiveness and force for productive forest practices than the highest learning and finest ideals can ever unlqose on the farmer or the industrial bull of the woods. Golden Acres Money talks too often, how ever, through tne tempter to me forest owner offering a ready market right on the ground, cash on the stump: It is bound to have its appeal to many a farmer who is not equipped either with logging machinery or market knowledge and too often the lump sum is taken, the work proceeds cut-and-slash, the land is skinned, a fire hazard re mains. The farmer who studies the Allen booklet with due care is going to take real second thought before he subjects hon est land and its tree family to such abuse. If for no other rea son, he is going to delay action becau.se of the many and various markets that are visualized in ttie book and through which the forest owner may "have his cake and eat it too" through thin nings, minor forest products, odd-time cuttings, substitution of horse-logging for machinery, etc. On the last there is a special circular. Ask for No. 8. All of the Washington Forest Products institute publications, like the similarly excellent ones 90 Million Feel of 0 and C Timber to Be Sold in 1951 Approximately 90 million board feet of timber will be put up for sale during the calendar year 1951 from land under the jurisdiction of the Mcdford dis trict of the bureau of land man agement, according to E. K. Peterson, district forester. Maximum amount available under the sustained-yield cutting budget would be 146 million board feet. However, the amount which will be made available for sale in each administrative unit will be determined next fall after all suggestions have been received from the industry and after the allocations have been discussed with the district advisory board. Volumes Reduced Indicated volumes for some. of the units will be reduced so that the total for the district will not exceed 90 million board feet, estimated amount the district can cruise and offer for sale. Individuals or firms interested in purchasing O and C or public domain timber from the bureau next year have been invited by Daniel L. Goldy, regional ad ministrator of the bureau, to submit suggestions for tracts to be offered for sale. Suggestions should be made to the district forester here by August 1. Sales program for 1951 will be an nounced by December 1. Planning Success "Advance planning of our timber sales program thus far has proved very successful," Goldy reported. This year the bureau is offering 467 million board feet under the program. The timber .sale program is formulated initially by district foresters in consultation with district advisory boards. Selec tion of tracts for sale. Goldy stated, is based on principles of forest management, but takes into account, as much as pos- Life Term Meted In Slaying of WAF San Francisco, June 6 (U.R) Lyle H. Buswell, 33-y ear-old former Vermont farm boy, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the rape-murder of WAF Sgt. Fairy E. Decker, 44, at Hamilton Air Force base last March 25. Buswell, raw boned military police sergeant, was found guilty by an all-male jury last Thurs day of murder in the second degree, murder in the course of rape, and rape. The prosecution had demand ed the death penalty, and the jury could have recommended it on any of the three counts, but favored leniency. Federal Judge Louis E. Good man imposed three concurrent life terms. of Oregon State college, fortify the economic faith that green acres are golden acres in the Pacific northwest, now and for ever. iff of Books Sent To Philippine College Ashland. June 6 Some 350 pounds of books which were do nated to Legerda Memorial col lege in Manila, Philippine is lands, have been received there, it was learned here last week. Miss Jeannette Smith, associate professor of education at South ern Oregon college, was in charge of the book project. Continuing donations of books are being sought for shipment to the institution, Miss Smith said. Especially needed are textbooks in psychology, principles and methods of teachings, mental tests and measurements, class room management, child study and supervision and administra tion of schools. Such books may be left in Churchill hall on the Southern Oregon college campus. Cardivascular diseases, col lectively, are the loading cause of death in the United States today. sible. the interest of prospective purcnasers. At the oral auction at the Med ford office in the city hall at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, June 19. there will be two tracts for sale instead of one as previously an nounced. The second tract to be offered contains about 2,500,000 board feet on the west fork of Evans creek. Timber earlier an nounced is on Jenny creek. FBI CHOICE WHERE nrnmrs Ioughest 81,000 miles of mountain and desert... "runs perfectly!" In the high mountain oountry of the Witt, whart grades art Ions and Itaap ... Folks will tall you more paoplt pratar "RPM" than any othar brand of motor OIL 1 Switch to "RPM," tha motor oil that's proved itself year attar yaar In tha touihtit drhln In the United Slatail o. W hen your engine's sluggish on grades, it's often because carbon is gumming up its rings and valves. 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