Cypress is not an important box material because it is 

 more valuable for other purposes and is suited for only certain 

 kinds of boxes. The largest quantities are used in Missouri, New 

 York and Louisiana. Nearly two-thirds of all the cypress lumber 

 cut comes from Louisiana. 



Chestnut is not used to a great extent for boxes, although the 

 lower grades of sound wormy sometimes go into the cheaper 

 kinds of boxes and crates. The States using the largest amounts 

 for boxes are Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Virginia, while 

 the States furnishing th's kind of box lumber are West Virginia, 

 Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. 



The wood of sugar pine is much like that of white pine, and is 

 therefore very suitable for boxes, but the greater part of the lum- 

 ber produced by sawmills is of too high grade to allow its use by 

 box factories. Over 80 per cent of the sugar pine used for boxes 

 is consumed in California, and practically all of the balance in 

 Oregon. These States alone supply this wood the greater part 

 being cut in California. 



Sycamore, although rather difficult to work, is used for certain 

 kinds of boxes. The largest amounts are consumed in Kentucky, 

 Virginia, Missouri, and Illinois. The lumber is produced in the 

 central hardwood States. 



Ash is not an important box material, but like other hard- 

 woods is used to some extent. The largest quantities are used in 

 Michigan and Illinois. It is estimated that 47 per cent of the 

 total is white ash, the largest quantities being used in Illinois and 

 Michigan; 28 per cent black ash, a large part of which is used in 

 Michigan; and 23 per cent green ash, used mostly in Texas, 

 Georgia, and Arkansas. A small amount of red ash was also used 

 in Georgia. White and black ash are cut mostly in the northern 

 States and green ash in the South. 



There are several kinds of willow, but all are listed together in 

 statistics. The most important kind is black willow, which is cut 

 and used largely in the States of Louisiana and Mississippi as a 

 substitute for cottonwood, which it resembles both in appearance 

 and qualities. 



The term larch here includes the eastern tamarack and western 

 larch. Ninety-five per cent of the total is tamarack, the largest 

 quantities of which were used in Michigan and Wisconsin. The 

 greater part of the western larch was used in Montana. Tamarack 

 is lumbered mostly in the Lake States and larch in the Northwest. 



A very minor use of Douglas fir is in the manufacture of boxes 

 in the States of California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. 

 Douglas fir lumber is produced in many of the western States 



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