FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tueiday, Jun t, 1950
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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.
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