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C. Distillation Industries — 



Destructive (hardwoods) : Crude wood alcohol — Methyl acetone, methyl 

 alcohol — Formaldehyde. 



(Acetic acid — Acetic anhydride, methyl acetate. 

 Acetone, methyl ethyl ketone, white ketone oil, 

 yellow ketone oil, ketone residue. 

 Charcoal, gas, hardwood tar, creosote oils, 

 beechwood creosote. 

 Destructive (resinous woods) : Turpentine, pine oil, light oil, pine tar oil, 



pitch, charcoal, gas, methyl alcohol, 

 acetone of lime. 

 Producers (wood waste) : Producer gas. 

 Steam and solvent (resinous woods) : Turpentine, pine oil, rosin extracted 



wood. 

 Steam (essential oils) : Cedar oil, spruce oil, hemlock oil, pine needle oil, 

 birch oil. 



D. Minor Industries — 



Direct from trees : Maple sap — Maple syrup, maple sugar, malic acid. 

 Gums — Canada balsam, spruce gum. 

 Fruits, nuts, flowers. 

 Naval stores — Turpentine, rosin. 

 Extraction with solvents: Water (bark and wood) — Tanning solutions, 

 tanning extracts. 

 Water (wood ashes) — Potash. 

 Volatile solvents (resinous woods) — Turpen- 

 tine, pine oil, rosin, extracted wood. 

 Alkalies (resinous woods) — Turpentine, pine 



oil, rosin soap, paper pulp. 

 Water (dyewoods — Black oak extract, but- 

 ternut extract, walnut extract, Canadian 

 sumac extract. 

 Water (western larch) — Galactose, mucic acid. 

 Hydrolysis (wood waste) : Ethyl alcohol, cattle food. 

 Alkali fusion (wood waste) : Oxalic acid. 



In the body of the paper statistics of Canadian wood manufactures 

 are given for the different materials and the woods employed. 



The annual statistics rounded off may be compiled into the following 

 enumeration : 



Total forest products (primary) $175,000,000 



Export of wood products 100,000,000 



Capital (4>999 establishments) in timber, lumber, and re-manu- 

 factures 260,000,000 



Capital {772 establishments) in paper and printing trades 63,000,000 



Railway cross-ties, 20,000,000 9,000,000 



Round mine timber, 53,000,000 linear feet 524,000 



Sawn mine timber, 23,000,000 feet b. m 304,000 



Poles, 283,000 660,000 



Lumber (3,239 mills), 3,842, 676,000 feet b. m 62,000,000 



Shingles, 3,000,000,000 6,000,000 



Laths, 800,000,000 2,000,000 



Pulpwood, wood pulp, and paper exports (90 mills) 45,000,000 



Pulpwood consumption, 1,406,000 cords 9,400,000 



Pulpwood exports, 950,000 cords 9,300,000 



