USES OF WOOD
■A PRODUCT WORTH SAVING.
"In spite of the use of many substitutes, statistics show that the world s per capita consumption of wood is fast increasing," states Mr. E. Phillips Turner, in ttis report on native forests. "Though the war has caused a set-back in private building, it has made large demands on ; European forests, for huge amounts of timber had to be found by the various belligerent nations for tho construction of military works. Previous to the .war the use of timber for tiu prnsr purposes -was increasing rapidly. 6omo of the materials now mnde from wood-pulp are artificial silk and other clothing fabrics, fioor-rngs, twine, and pots for holding such soft material as honey, cream, otc. So many articles are now boing made from wood-pulp that a European paper has declared that to be without wood is almost as bad as being without bread.' Tho consumption of gasolene and other derivatives of petroleum is increasing with great rapidity Sir Boverton Redwood, the highest authority in tho world on petroleum, has said that at the. present rate of consumption the world's available supplies of this material will be exhausted m twentv-fivo years' time. It seems, therefore, that the. jskos of gasolene, petrol, etc., are never again likoly to be as low as they were before the wnr. liie result will be that some cheaper material will be sought for, and the one most likely to be used is wood-alcohol, which has been termed by Professor V. Lewes 'the one illimitable fuel. The Forest Products Laboratory of tlur United States has recently discovered a method of producing wood-aloohol at a much reduced cost, and .it is now certain that the use of this material for motor purposes will increase rapidly. "The revival of wooden shipbuilding provides another use for wood. Tho large schooners now being built in America will require an average of about 1,250,000 superficial feet each; and as several hundred ships are proposed to be built, it is evident that a largo amount pf timber will be used. In Europe the restoration of buildings that have been dfstroyed in the war will make a heavy drain 'on both the forests of Europe and America. The foregoing matters aTe referred to in order to dispel the opinions that some may hold as the result of assertions that wood is becoming of less consequence owing to the use of sub.stitutes."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3177, 30 August 1917, Page 3
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403USES OF WOOD Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3177, 30 August 1917, Page 3
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