Word: slosson
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When trees become crops, forest conservation will cease to be a problem. And in the February issue of Cellulose, a new trade magazine, the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson of Science Service gives the answer of the Woodman who was asked to spare-that-tree. "Sure," says Woodman, "I can spare them all, for I can grow wood quicker in weeds and shrubs. Trees are not the only means of producing cellulose...
...Slosson predicted that crop trees, which grow at the rate of 10% per year for the first 15 years and at the rate of 4% as they approach maturity, will never be allowed to reach their full growth. When they are allowed to mature, only 50% of them is used at the sawmill. Sapling forests will be harvested-perhaps by Paul Bunyanesque mowing machines-and put through a process which will reduce their fibres to a mossy mat; then remolded, remade into wood, of any dimension, any hardness. This process is now being used in Mississippi to manufacture "Masonite" from...