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average price of $53.54 is comparatively low for such desir- 
able stock. New York woodlots now contribute only 23 mil- 
lion feet of white pine annually to the wood-using industries of 
the State. 
Spruce ranks second in the order of consumption. Both the 
red and the white species are common throughout the State, 
red being the principal one. Its wood is light, soft, stiff, and 
moderately strong. In the manufacture of pianos and other 
musical instruments, its resonance or capacity to amplify 
sound waves makes it one of the most valuable of woods. It 
is also the most valuable of all woods for paper making on 
account of its long, strong, light-colored fiber. While red 
spruce is slightly harder and of slower and more uniform 
growth than white spruce, the two have the same general 
mechanical and physical properties and are generally used 
interchangeably by the various industries without reference to 
species. Black spruce is a decidedly inferior species sold 
mixed with the others. 
Southern yellow pines include longleaf pine (P. palustris), 
shortleaf pine (P. echinata), loblolly pine (P. taeda), and 
slash pine (P. cartbaea). Pine which came from North Caro- 
lina, at comparatively low prices and found use in the indus- 
tries using cheaper qualities of pine is listed as loblolly pine. 
All other pine coming from the Southern States, unless it 
was specifically called loblolly pine, is listed as southern yellow 
pine and includes longleaf, slash, and shortleaf pines. On ac- 
count of the lack of information furnished, it was impossible in 
most cases to distinguish between the longleaf and shortleaf, 
and these consequently are listed together as southern yellow 
pine. The total consumption of the southern pines is found 
to be in practically the same ratio to the total lumber consump- 
tion of the State as seven years ago. Seventeen per cent of the 
lumber consumed in New York is southern yellow pine. 
Soft maple comprises red maple (Acer rubrum) and silver 
or soft maple (Acer saccharinum). The qualities of these 
two woods are quite similar and both are mixed and sold with 
hard maple. Silver maple is stronger and not so brittle as 
