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About Vernonia eagle. (Vernonia, Or.) 1922-1974 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1939)
9 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939 VERNONIA EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON tion of lumber where there is ample' sumed more than 23 billion board local timber. feet of lumber in 1936—approxima The study indicates that the per tely twice as much as in 1932. In cepita consumption of tumber is the same period average per capita five times as high in the Pacific consumption increased from 94 feet Coast states as in New England to 184. and Middle Atlantic states combin- The results of the study by Rey ed. All of the 22 states which are nolds and Pierson are contained in below the national average in lum the Government publication “Lum- ber consumption lie east of the ber Distribution and Consumption Great Plains. Of these, 18 appear ir 1936,” which may be obtained tc be deficient in timber supply, free from the forest service, U. S. recording to the report. department of agriculture, Wash Although the per capita consump ington, D. C., while the supply lasts. tion is low, the largest market for lumber is in the industrial block of states east of the Mississippi river and north of the Ohio, which con- tain more than half of the na- tion’s population. The region now u«es more than i one third of the lumber consumed I in the United States, of which 75 per cent, is ob- Best Growth Can Be Ob tained from imports or from other str tes, particularly those in the dis- tained by Planting Now tant lumber producing regions of on Non-Crop Land the Pacific Northwest and the south. The Agricultural Conservation As- The United States as a whole con- West Leads in Per Capita Consumption Oregon Led Nation Amount of Board 1 Used in 1936 Oregon led the nation in 1936 with lumber consumption of 1,149 board feet per capita, and Washing- ton ranked sec and with 840 feet, according to R. V. Reynolds and A. H. Pierson of the division of forest economics of the U. S. forest ser vice, Washington, D. C. Next in order of per capita consumption were Idaho, 537 feet; Nevada, 532 feet; California, 424 feet; Montana, 409 feet and Wyoming, 403 feet. Connecticut and Pennsylvania rank ed lowest with 91 board feet per capita, each. Forest service findings indicate a high per capita consump- ¡Payments Are (Available for Seeding Now PAGE FIVE rociation allows a benefit payment the above mixture to be added and tourists. Special emphasis will for seeding non-crop land and re which has proven quite successful be given to seasonal sports and juvenating old pastures. They allow on the hill land especially and recreation with an accompanying one unit for every ten pounds of which has been in a grass nursery description of recreational area approved seed mixture that is seed at Vernonia for the 'last ten1 years facilities. Brief descriptions of ed. A unit amounts to about $1.50 is tall fescue. There is seed avail or possibly a little more. This is able of this new grass at the present points of scenic and historical inter quite a help towards the cost of time. It is advised that as many as est along highways, living accomo- i dations anu road conditions, dis- supplying the seed. possible try this grass. I tances and other general tourist in- A good pasture mixture of seed j formation will be given. The ; vide to sow is western rye grass, four I look will also contain a folding pounds; English rye grass, four map of the state, showing the high pounds; timothy, two pounds; or ways and indicating recreational chard grass, three pounds; alsike centers. In addition there will be clover, two pounds; and white clov a brie f physical description of the er, one-half pound. To this should state and a miscellany of facts be added sod-forming grasses if about Oregon intended to satisfy the pasture is to be permanent such the tourists’ interest and curiousity. as one or two of the following WPA Writer ’ s Project The guide book will not cost more grasses; Astoria bent, one-half than 5c and will be in such form Chewings fescue, two pound, Compiling Information that travelers may easily obtain any pounds, superior Reeds canary grass, Assist Tourists basic information needed. Guide or Kentucky blue grass of about A streamlined guide book of Ore books, similar to the Oregon edition, two pounds each. About 10 or 12 pounds of the above mixture should I gon is being prepared by the WPA ere planned by the national office writers’ project to be released for of the federal writers’ project for be applied per acre. the use of the summer vacationists I every state in the union. 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