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and from seed. The vigor of the forest is therefore main- 

 tained, forest fires are kept out and all of the available wood 

 product is utilized. It would be a highly desirable situation 

 if all forest industries could be run on the same basis. 



Statistics of ivood consumption in New York. 



For a long time Xew York was the leader in the consump- 

 tion of wood in the hardwood distillation industry. In the 

 early nineties, however, the industry spread into Pennsyl- 

 vania, and the gTeatest consumption at present is found in 

 Michigan where, although there are comparatively few plants, 

 the total consumption of wood exceeds that of any other 

 State. From an investigation carried on in the spring of 

 1916, the State College of Forestry has determined that the 

 annual consumption of hardwood ,for the industry in New 

 York at that time was 192,330 cords. The daily capacity as 

 reported by these plants was 6431'2 cords. These figures have 

 been compiled as a result of both the daily and annual capac- 

 ities of the twenty-five plants in the State, as estimated by 

 the plants themselves. The latest available statistics as com- 

 piled by the Bureau of Census at Washington, D. C, for the 

 consumption of hardwoods in Xew York State in this in- 

 dustry was for 1911, for which year it was announced that 

 132,400 cords were consumed. 



The largest plant in the State in the spring of 1916 con- 

 sumed 80 cords per day. This was an 8-oven plant located in 

 Delaware county. The smallest plant in the State was one 

 consuming only 12 cords per day in Sullivan county. This 

 was an old cylinder retort plant containing 8 pairs of retorts. 

 The average daily capacity of the individual New York plant 

 is 25.74 cords and the average annual capacity is 7,691 cords. 



As a inile the oven retort plants are much larger in daily 

 capacity than the round retort plants. The smallest oven 

 retort plant is a 2-oven affair consuming 16 cords per day 

 with an 80 cord plant per day the largest. The smallest 



