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 DURABILITY. 



With regard to it.s durability, White I'iiie i.s geneially luidcrratcd. The soft, light-colored 

 wood siiggest.s general frailty and a lack of resistance, iii which resistance to decay is iiichulcd. 

 lu the region where it grows the unusual great durability of the heartwood of White Pine is 

 well known; " the .stumps of White Pine last a lifetime:" old logs, covered with moss and often 

 with young Poplars and IJirch growing from their surface are uncovered and utilized as shingle 

 boltf?. White Pine shiugles wear out, but rarely decay, and a good sidewalk of White Pine is 

 con.sidered the best to be had. As in other pines, the .sapwood decays readily, but this being 

 narrow in good logs, more than half of all White Pine sawed is good durable heart, a wood which 

 is neither subject to decay nor to the boring insects anymore than the heavy resinous heart of 

 the Red Pine or of the Southern pines. 



COMPARISON WITH OTHER WOODS. 



Generally White Pine is logged and milleil on a large scale, cut mostly into boards and plank, 

 and there is today no common wood which is more economically handled and more carefully 

 selected. 



Compared to other pines, the White Pine is ollereil mori' extensively and has a greater 

 influence on lumber markets than any other wood used. It is more uniform, lighter, softer, and 



