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central Tennessee and Kentucky, but its best development is reached 

 in the higher mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Wliite 

 oak reaches its best development in the river valleys of Tennessee 

 and Kentucky. While poplar always forms a small proportion of the 

 timber of the area, it very often forms a large proportion of the 

 merchantable timber. White oak is present in very much greatei' 

 quantity than poplar over the region as a vrhole, and occasionally 

 forms over 50 per cent of the stand. 



A new use for chestnut, which has developed very rapidly in the 

 last few years, is for making tannin extract. For this purpose all 

 grades and sizes of chestnut above about 

 five inches in diameter are used. There 

 are a number of factories making the ex- 

 tract, one of which consumes 150 cords 

 of this wood daily. This industry 

 makes possible the utilization of the 

 limbs and tops and the defective chest- 

 nut, which otherwise would be wasted, 

 and materially assists in conservative 

 management by making this timber 

 more valuable and clearer logging prac- 

 ticable. 



There are a number of large perma- 

 nent mills, but over the region as a 

 whole most of the lumbering is still 

 done by portable mills. These move 

 through the timber, and the cutting is 

 cleaner than it formerly was. 



The demands upon this hardwood for- 

 est are enormous and varied. Great 

 tiiQustries employing large manufactur- 

 ing plants depend upon it for log sup- 

 plies. The most important of these in- 

 dustries are those using hardwoods for 

 slack and tight cooperage, for lumber, 

 furniture finishing, railroail ties, tan- 

 nin extract and wagon stock. In addi- 

 tion to furnishing wood for all these 

 and other purposes, the forest of this 

 region has a vital function to perform 

 in protecting a watershed upon whicli 

 a number of states depend for a con- 

 stant supply of water. 



is exhausted in the southern peninsula, as without doubt the large 

 holders will conserve their timber property for many years, in 

 order to take advantage of the accretion in value that will 

 naturally come. 



While Michigan is famous for the sjdendid qualitj- of its hard 

 maple, it is almost equally renowned for its birch, basswood, gray 

 elm, rock elm and black ash. The rock elm of this state is pretty 

 well exhausted and the basswood is also limited in supply. These 

 two woods will soon follow the absolute extinction that has over- 

 taken the splendid red oak of the lower part of the southern 



peninsula of this state. 



Michigan as a Hardwood Producer 



Michigan, fornu'riy tlie greatest white 

 pine producing state in the unicm, has 

 now become one of the foremost hard- 

 wood states of the country. Last year 

 it is cstinmted that there were 618.000,- 

 000 feet of hardwood lumber produced 

 in that state, against 426,000,000 feet 

 of pine. Year by year the pine output 

 is decreasing, while the quantity of 

 hardwood lumber is increasing. The 

 upper peninsula of the state, considered 

 as an individual section, was the largest 

 producer of hardwood Unnber of any 

 single manufacturing district, although 

 the larger lower peninsula ]>roduced 



double the volume. The hardwood area of the lower peninsula 

 is now secured in a comparatively few and very strong hands. 

 The price of hardwood timber within that section of the state, 

 which ten years ago could have been bought at from $2 to $10 an 

 acre, now readily commands $25 and upwards. However, in the 

 northern peninsula, there are comparatively few very large hold- 

 ings, with half a dozen exceptions — the aggregate of hardwood 

 lumber produced in that peninsula being manufactured from nu- 

 merous small holdings. This state of affairs will probably result 

 in the denudation of the upper peninsula long before the timber 



A MESSAGE 



By Eoosevelt and the Hardwood Record. 



No people on earth have more cause to 

 be thankful than ours, and this is said 

 reverently. In no spirit of boastfulness in 

 our own strength, but with gratitude to the 

 Giver of Good who has blessed us with the 

 conditions which have enabled us to achieve 

 so large a measure of well-being and of 

 happiness. 



Much has been given to us and much will 

 be rightfully expected from us. We have 

 duties to others and duties to ourselves, 

 and we can shirk neither. 



Toward all others, large and small, our 

 attitude must be one of cordial ana sincere 

 friendship. We must show not only in our 

 words but in our deeds that we are earn- 

 estly desirous of securing their good-will by 

 acting toward them in a spirit of just and 

 generous recognition of all their rights. 



But justice and generosity in the hard- 

 wood trade, as in an individual, count most 

 when shown not by the weak but by the 

 strong. While ever careful to refrain from 

 wronging others, we must be no less insist- 

 ent that we are not wronged ourselves. 

 We wish peace, but we wish the peace of 

 justice, the peace of righteousness. We 

 wish it because we think it is right, and 

 not because we are afraid. 



Our relations with other lumbermen of 

 the world are important, but still more im- 

 portant are our relations among ourselves. 

 Power invariably means responsibility and 

 danger. Our predecessors in the hardwood 

 industry faced certain perils which we have 

 outgrown. We now face other perils the 

 very existence of which it was impossible 

 that they should foresee. There is no good 

 reason why we should fear the future, but 

 there is every reason why we should face 

 it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves 

 the gravity of the problems before us, nor 

 fearing to approach these problems with 

 the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve 

 them aright. 



To do so we must show the qualities of 

 practical intelligence, of courage, and 

 above all the power of devotion to a lofty 

 ideal which made great the men who 

 founded this industry. 



net supply, 

 tisement. 



it iviiuld 



Stock Lists. 



There is probably no form of lumber 

 ailvertising that possesses nu)re value 

 than stock lists distributed anuing lum- 

 ber buyers. There is no vehicle for the 

 circulatiou of these lists that equals 

 till' H.\RDWOOD EeCORD. 



There are manv hardwood stock lists 

 issued cither individually or collective- 

 ly, that are misleading and a positive 

 nuisance to tl'.e hardwood industry, as 

 in them arc listed lumber that has no 

 existence save in the minds of the ad- 

 vertisers. Knowing the attention that 

 a list of desirable lumber attracts from 

 lumber consumers, these lists are per- 

 sistently circulated. Tlir liasis for the 

 existence of these fabulous quantities 

 of dry stock on hand is the stocks of 

 lit her manufacturers or .jobbers, which 

 the advertiser trusts that he may be 

 able to obtain in the event thnt he 

 secures a snlc. 



The res\ilt of the dissemination of 

 this sort of duplicated stock informa- 

 tion is that many buyers will say that 

 tile "woods are full" of a certain 

 liiiid, grade .-iiiil tliirkne^s iif lumber, 

 when as a nmtter of fact, it is in very 

 short .supply. They will therefore see 

 no necessity for an early pundr'se to 

 su])ply their prospective wants, 1 ut will 

 delay ;ind eventually find tieit tliey 

 are unable to obtain a su])ply of the 

 particular it"m they need at anything 

 liki' a reasonable price. 



'I'lie Hardwood Rkcord is attempting 

 tn confine itself to advertising concerns 

 that are resjionsible and ones that do 

 not indulge in the pernicious practice 

 of listing stocks they do not own or 

 of which they have not the exclusive 

 sale. This publication goes so far as 

 to incor|)orate in every advertising eon- 

 traet that "the copy for the advertise- 

 ment is subject to the approval of 

 the juibdishers " and if it found an 

 advertiser listing stock which he could 

 promptly refuse the insertion of the mlver- 



Picking Out the Best. 



All forest cutting since lumbering conuneuced has been done by 

 selection. The universal practice has been to cut off the best quality 

 of timber first, leaving the inferior woods to be used in subse- 

 quent logging operations. Now-a-days all woods having grown into 

 commercial importance nearly all timl)er cutting is done clean of 

 all saw timber, and in many cases the woods refuse is converted 

 into charcoal and chemicals. 



