THE STORY OF WHITE PINE 



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Fencing, No. 2, SIS, 6"- 16', Minne- 

 sota, $25.02, Wisconsin, $25.53, Michi- 

 gan, S28.50. 



Lath, No. 1 (W. P.), Minnesota, 

 $3.63, Wisconsin, $3.71, Michigan, $3.92. 



Lath, No. 1 (Mixed), Minnesota, 

 $3.27, Wisconsin, $3.40, Michigan, $3.45. 



Mill run, Vermont, $18.72, Maine, 

 $18.19, Minnesota, $18.91, Wisconsin, 

 $20.34, Michigan, $22.67, Pennsylvania, 

 $21.33, New York, $21.07, New Hamp- 

 shire, $17.61. 



Nearly all wood-using industries find 

 a place for white pines. Lists show that 

 in New York 44 articles are made partly 

 or wholly of it, 48 in Massachusetts, 

 66 in Michigan, and 116 in Illinois. 



THE FUTURE SUPPLY OF WHITE PINE. 



The boundaries of this tree have not 

 contracted much in historic time, though 

 the total stumpage has declined to one- 

 tenth of what it formerly was. Where- 

 ever the trees once grew, some still grow, 

 except that tracts of small size in some 

 instances mav have been entirelv de- 



nuded by cutting and fire. If no seed 

 trees are left, and all seedlings are 

 killed by fire, white pine in that area is 

 ended until seeds blow in from the out- 

 side or seedlings are planted by man. 

 Complete extermination over large tracts 

 seldom occurs, and the remaining trees 

 here and there begin the slow process of 

 restocking the vacant places. Fire is 

 more destructive than the ax. Small 

 white pine die from a slight scorching. 

 Some one has figured out, after extensive 

 observation, that pitch pine {Pmtis 

 rigida), which is often associated with 

 white pines, will survive sixty-fold as 

 much fire. That may be putting it 

 strong, but no fact is better known than 

 that white pine seedlings are so easily 

 killed that a passing fire seldom leaves 

 one alive. To that susceptibility to 

 injury is due the barrenness of parts of 

 Michigan and other Lake States where 

 splendid pine forests once grew. It is 

 there more than in other parts of white 

 pine's range that total extirpation of the 

 species has occurred over considerable 



Residence Finished ix White Fixe. 



this is a minnesot.\ home and it displays one of the best uses of the wood. it has been put to similar service 

 during almost 300 years and has lost none of its popularity. this is the home of j. e. lynch, colquet, 



MICH. 



