Excerpt from Forest Products Statistics (Pulp and Paper Edition): A Classified List of United States Government Information Adapted From a Compilation Almost two centuries ago the celebrated English philosopher, Dr. Samuel Johnson, tersely said that half of a man's education consisted of knowing where to get information. With the increasing accumulation of recorded information since that time, and the more complex organization of social, business and economic activities, there is no one who doubts that Doctor Johnson expressed an enduring idea. Its application to this presentation is direct and obvious if one knows of the immense mass of information in various stages of digestion that the numerous offices of the United States government have collected and developed during many years, with a greatly stimulated activity during the recent war period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.