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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Squares for Window Shade Rollers. 



more than" 60,000,000 feet of white pine are annually made into shade and map rollers in the united states. 

 this wood is unsurpassed for that purpose, because of its lightness and its disinclin.\tion to warp, 

 high grades only .\re used. 



remarkable fact that some of the 

 articles made of white pine within a 

 few years after the landing of the Pil- 

 grims are in existence yet. A door of 

 this wood, which was swinging on its 

 hinges within eleven years after the 

 first foot touched Plymouth Rock, is a 

 venerable relic today. It was one of the 

 attractions at the Forest Products Ex]3o- 

 sition in Chicago and New^ York this 

 year. It came from Medford, Mass. It 

 cannot be claimed that it was the first 

 door made by wiiite men in the United 

 vStates, but it is the oldest in existence. 

 The door is of soft, clear New Eng- 

 land white pine. Age has somewhat 

 browned it, but, to all appearances, the 

 wood is as sound as it was on the day 

 when the Puritan carpenter finished 

 his job and swung the portal for the 

 first time — 1631. The event might be 

 passed over as a mere incident but for 

 the fact that it was the beginning of 

 what has become an enormous industry. 

 The first use of white pine in America 

 was in door making. If the wood's 

 selection at that time was accidental, 

 it was a fortunate accident. The use 

 has continued till the present, not only 

 for doors but for practically every kind 



of interior and exterior house finish. 

 It is not improbable that this pine has 

 made twice as many doors as any other 

 wood of the United States, and to say 

 this is no disparagement of the many 

 other excellent woods which have been 

 and are being used for doors, by millions 

 of feet annually. But w^hite pine was 

 first in time, and for two hundred and 

 fifty years it maintained its place as 

 first in quantity. It may still be first, 

 though the figures to prove the state- 

 ment that it now" leads all other woods in 

 doormaking cannot be authoritatively 

 quoted. Frames, sash, blinds, and other 

 similar articles are listed together in 

 statistics, and in the totals white pine 

 is exceeded by the combined manufac- 

 tures of the southern yellow pine, but 

 by no other wood or group of woods; 

 but in doors alone white pine may still 

 occupy the first place in quantity as it 

 unquestionably does in quality. 



WHY ITS HIGH PLACE. 



There is reason for the prominent 

 position as building material occupied 

 by white pine. It has given good 

 service practically everywhere. It was 

 the sleeper and the shingle, the founda- 



