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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



pretty near utilizing " everything but the squeal." 



Turpentine, rosin, excelsior, charcoal, and pine tar are 

 important by-products, which are now being made in 

 cjuantities from wood fragments formerly destroyed by 

 fire. Pine oil, used in the manufacture of varnishes and 

 paints, is a comparatively new product from waste, ob- 

 tained by distillation. The mill scraps, shredded and 

 subjected to chemical treatment, yield a pulp that is made 

 into the strongest wrapping-paper known, Longleaf pine 

 has been used 

 almost exclusively 

 in the experiments 

 and manufacture 

 of natural color 

 kraft pulps and 

 papers, but the 

 similarity of the 

 wood of shortleaf 

 and longleaf 

 makes it probable 

 that further ex- 

 periments will 

 show a like use for 

 shortleaf. Uses 



have been found 

 even for the pine 

 needles, the 

 " leaves " of the 

 tree, which, dis- 

 tilled green, yield 

 an oil of balsamic 

 odor, while boiling 

 the needles in a 

 solution of alkali 

 produces " pine 

 wool," a fibrous 

 substance that is 

 carded into fabrics 

 or used in 

 upholstering. 



Government statistics do not distinguish between long- 

 leaf and shortleaf in giving the annual consumption of 

 southern yellow pine in the various manufacturing in- 

 dustries. However, shortleaf has a very important place 

 in the industries here mentioned : 



The manufacture of boxes and crates consumes 10 

 per cent of the total annual lumber output of all woods 

 in the United States, and southern yellow pine provides 

 the material for one-fourth of all such products. 



In railway car construction the annual consumption 

 of lumber is 1,260,000,000 board feet— and southern yel- 

 low pine supplies 54 per cent of it. 



In the manufacture of agricultural implements — 

 plows, harrows, cultivators, drills, planters, threshing 

 machines, rakes, etc. — 300 million feet of lumber are 

 used annually, and over 30 per cent of it is southern 

 yellow pine. 



In ship and boat building 200 million feet of lumber 

 are required every year — and 53 per cent of that is 

 southern yellow pine. 



SHORTLEAF PINE FOR INTERIOR TRIM 



All of the trim and panelling in this room are of the curly southern yellow pine, iinished in natural 

 color. Note the beautiful grain in the broad panels. 



In the manufacture of trunks and valises, which re- 

 quires 75 million board feet of lumber annually, southern 

 yellow pine supplies 20 per cent. 



In the manufacture of playground equipment, 16 per 

 cent of all the wood used is southern yellow pine, and 

 in the making of scales and weighing apparatus 24 per 

 cent of the wood required is that same species. 



Of all the excelsior produced, necessitating the con- 

 sumption of 100 million board feet of lumber annually, 



15 per cent is south- 

 ern yellow pine. 



To obtain the 

 maximum service 

 from any wood, 

 however used, it is 

 necessary to know 

 something of the 

 indi\idual qualities 

 of that wood. The 

 specialists and the 

 technical experts 

 inform themselves 

 along this line as a 

 matter of course — 

 and are the gainers 

 by their knowledge. 

 No less surely will 

 the general run of 

 us be benefited by 

 a little accurate in- 

 formation concern- 

 ing the woods best 

 suited to our uses. 

 A careful study of 

 the merits and 

 qualities of short- 

 leaf pine will prove 

 conclusively that 

 it is entitled to high 

 consideration as a structural and finishing wood. 



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^HE Curse of the Forest," a motion picture of a real 

 forest fire, showing methods of fighting and the 

 devastation which follows in the wake of a forest 

 fire, has just been completed by the Vitagraph 



Company of America in cooperation with the Pennsylvania 



Department of Forestry. 



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lALIFORNIA'S ever-threatening forest fires of the 



dry season hold a minimum of menace to the great 



tract of redwood trees, because the bark, several 



inches thick, is almost fireproof. The California 



redwood forests contain 80,000,000,000 board feet of 



lumber, and the trees have been standing since the 



beginning of the Christian era. 



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