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INDEX 



Maple, amount for boxes, 251 

 - , black, used for syrup, 379 

 , boiling for veneers, 97 



cross ties, amount, 267 



for pulp, 26, 27, 29, 48 

 , fuel value, 342 



, hard, charcoal yield, 239 



, hard, for charcoal, 236 



, hard, ties, durability, 293 



, , used for distillation, 192, 193, 217 



, , tight cooperage, 146 



-, , veneers, amount used, 93 

 , , veneer logs, prices, 93 

 , , , use, 106, 107 



hoops, 131 



, lumber cut, 4, 8 



, lumber value, 10 



, Oregon, 379 



, red, used for syrup, 379 



, silver, used for syrup, 379 



, soft, charcoal yield, 239 



, soft, excelsior, 426 



, staves, sizes, 40 



sugar orchard, conditions for commercial 



operations, 381 



syrup and sugar, making process, 394 

 , sugar, used for syrup and sugar, 378 



syrup and sugar, uses of, 398 



, value of product, 398 

 , woods operations, 385 

 , yields of, 396 



, history, 374 



, sap flow and season, 382 



tree with 32 buckets, illustration of, 399 



used in mines, 332 

 , weight, 193 



Maples, species of, used for syrup and sugar, 



378 



Mariller, C., on charcoal making, 247 

 Marine borers, damage by, 320 

 Maritime pine, 185, 186 



, illustration of tapping, 186 



used for naval stores, 185, 186 

 Marquis, R., on cork, 443 



Martin, Geoffrey, on charcoal and wood dis- 

 tillation, 223 



Maryland, box lumber consumption, 252 

 , wood fuel used, 339 



Wood Products Co. plant, illustration of 



194 



Mason, D. T., on utilization of lodgepole 

 pine, 334, 335 



Massachusetts, box lumber consumption, 252 



, lumber cut, 3 



, wood fuel used, 339 



Material, raw, .used for paper pulp, 28 



Mathey, on charcoal burning, 241 



Mattoon, W. R., on southern cypress, 373 



Maxwell, H., on wooden and fiber boxes, 261 



Mechanical process of pulp making, woods 



used in. 29 

 pulp, cost of producing, 37, 38 



value of ties, 295 



Mell, C. D., on fustic wood, 423 



, tanbark oak, 87 

 Method of piling poles, 320 



using "S" irons, 291 

 Methods of making veneers, 90 



manufacture, rubber, 411 



rubber production, 404 



tapping rubber trees, illustration of 



409 



Metric ton, equivalents, 16 

 Mexico, rubber, 406 



Michigan, box lumber consumption, 252 

 , lumber cut, 3, 7 

 , wood fuel used, 339 

 Mileage, railway, 263 

 Mill waste, charcoal yield, 238 



used for fuel, 340, 341 



Miller, W., on American Paper-mills, 59 



, Warner, 21 



Mimosa, 86 



Mimusops balata, rubber, 406 



Mine timbers, amount used, 330, 331, 332 



, annual consumption, 5 



, causes of destruction, 335 



, cost of making, 334 



, durability, 334, 335 



, general, 330 



, kinds, 330, 331, 332 



, prices of, 332, 333 



, specifications, 333 



, value of, 332 



, wastage, 5 



Mining timber, equivalent, 15 

 Mines, number, 330 



Minnesota, box lumber consumption, 252 

 , lumber cut, 3, 7 

 , wood fuel used, 339 

 Mississippi, box lumber consumption, 252 

 , lumber cut, 3, 7 



River, barging ties on, 285 

 , wood fuel used, 339 



