Maple, the depp.rtmv-pt goes n ^ sr y i s ne ^ 

 chief wood;, used for agricultural implr/msnts and farm machinery, 

 being so employed hoc^ure of its rrtrength and hardness. All 

 kinds of wooden v n rc- a:~e laade of i,jppl r : , v/nich holds important 



.k also in tli ? iManuf? .,c curt.: of shuttle*.-, spools, and bobbins. 

 It competes with "olacJ: gUM for firct placo in t!u i..'^ iff^cturc 

 of rollers of raany kinds, from those onployed in house Moving 

 to the lesiJ mas jive ones uned on lawn-nowers. Athletic ^oods, 

 school supplies, brush backs, pulloyt; , type cases, and crutches 

 are a few of the othar article,-; for v/hich r-iaple is in demand. 



Seven ppeoies of ruapl-? grow in the United States, of 

 v/hich su.^ar maple, fcOMP times called h n rd ir^pla , is the most im- 

 portant. The total cut of maple in the United States annually 

 amounts to about 1,150,000,000 feet. Mep.rly one -half is pro- 

 duced by I-,Iichi.g r .n, with "Wisconsin, Peniirylrar ia, 1'ev/ York, and 



.,t Virginia follov/inA: in the ordfj- n^^ede Sugar raaple , says 

 the department, is in little dangrr of clicappe-aring from the 

 American forests, for it is a soron^, vigorox^s, ag^resrivo tree, 

 c.nd though not a fast grower is able to hold itb own. In Michi- 

 gan it is not unusual for mo,ple to take possession of land from 

 vhich pine or hardvroody h/:.ve baen cue clean, and from ITev; England 

 v;estward through the Lake States and scuthvvard to the Ohio and 

 jpctoitiac rivers fev/ r other specieL are oftener se'?n in \voodlots- 



