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and Cercidiphyllum Japonicum. Three or four minor woods are 

 used for special purposes. The absence of hardwoods except 

 oaks is noticeable. 



Gewicht und Schwindungsgrosse Japanhcher Holzartsn . Centralblatt 

 fiir das gesammte Forstwesea. Dec, 1905. pp. 490-502. 



Despised woods become valuable when 



New prices rise and supplies wane. We recall 



Lumber the difficulty of marketing our Eastern 



Supply Hemlock only 25 years ago ; the Western 



Hemlock tried to sail on the market under 

 the assumed flag of "Alaska Pine," not more than 10 years ago, 

 and then failed ; Noble Fir needed the name of lyarch to make it 

 desirable ; Red Gum had to be called Hazelwood to make it 

 palatable, and now comes Bay Poplar, disguising the well known, 

 long despised Tupelo of southern forests, to find a market. It 

 is stated in a reported address by the secretary of the Southern 

 Cypress Manufacturer's Association, that members of that As- 

 sociation, own almost 4,000,000,000 feet of timber of that de- 

 scription. Experiments so far to utilize this supply have not 

 been successful until lately, when several mills have solved the 

 problem of turning it into satisfactory stock for siding, moldings, 

 finish, carsiding etc. 



Here as in other directions the propriety and usefulness of the 

 Timber Physics work of the old Division of Forestry, which was 

 for a time despised and abandoned as not germane to its functions, 

 appears justified. 



Bay Poplar and its Approaching Importance. American Lumberman. 

 Feb. 24, 1906. 



A poorly composed, nevertheless high- 



Wood Pulp ly interesting paper by Philipps describes 



Processes. in detail with historical background the 



various processes of wood pulp manufacture, 



the writer having visited the most up-to-date mills in Sweden, 



Norway, Finland, United States and Canada. 



It appears that the first suggestion of the use of wood for 

 paper was made by Reaumur in the first part of the i8th century, 

 .although a practical application of the idea did not materialize 



