Only about 76,000 cords of Iieinlock bark are now cut 

 annually in Xew York. Formerly several hundred 

 thousand cords were cut every year. Very few virgin 

 stands of hemlock such as this are to be found in the 

 State. Thousands of acres of fine hemhjck stands in 

 the Catskills and in the southwestern coiuities were 

 sacrificed from twenty to forty years ago for their bark 

 alone. Photograph by Nelso:x C. Browx. 



