Excerpt from Proceedings of the Seventh Southern Conference on Forest Tree Improvement, June 26-27, 1963, Gulfport, Mississippi The pulp and paper industry in the 12 Southern States has developed from its beginning about 40 years ago into a giant industry, producing more than 60 percent of the total pulp production in the United States. The present annual consumption of pulpwood in the South is 25 million cords, with a market value of over $500 million. Approximately employees, men and women, are directly engaged in the southern pulp and paper industry, and the annual value of pulp, paper, and board shipped from the 73 pulp and paper mills is over $2 billion. The capital investment is over $4 billion. 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.