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As for glue, it oozes from the trunk of the tree and is found useful 

 for many purposes; the leaves make excellent towels for the few natives 

 who care to use them, and from the inner bark of the tree a kind of 

 coarse cloth can be made. Besides this its dried blossoms are used for 

 tinder in lighting fires, and the wood is in great demand for building 

 purposes. 



With a few of these wonderful trees in the front yard, housekeeping 

 ought to be an easy matter. 



FROM THE FOREST 



About sixty per cent of all our railroad ties are made of white oak; 

 nearly twenty per cent are pine. Since every mile of railway needs about 

 2,500 ties and there are over 200,000 miles of such roads in our country, 

 it takes millions of acres of timber to supply a single set of ties Such 

 a set has to be replaced about every seven years. Thus it is that the 

 railways rank among the greatest consumers of wood in the country. 



Our telegraph and telephone poles are made largely from hemlock 

 and cedar. The price paid for such timber varies from two to ten 

 dollars per pole. 



Flour barrels are made largely from elm. Barrels for liquids from a 

 fine grade of white oak; also ash and elm. 



Our furniture is made from walnut, ash, oak, maple and other hard 

 woods. 



White oak and hickory are used in manufacture of wagon and buggy 

 wheels. 



Soft woods, as poplar, aspen, spruce, pine and 'basswood, are used in 

 the manufacture of paper such as is used in newspapers, note books, etc. 



Three fourths of our lumber is made from soft woods, such as red- 

 wood, white pine, spruce and hemlock. The great pineries of Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota and Michigan supply our white pine, jthe most useful timber 

 in the north temperate zone, because it is in greatest demand for build- 

 ing purposes. 



The bark of the tanbark oak tree is -used in the tanning of leather. 



Corks are made from the bark of the cork oak, which grows only in 

 the Mediterranean countries and Portugal. 



As a national industry, forestry stands second only to agriculture in 

 number of people and amount of capital employed and in value of 

 product. It has been estimated that we have five hundred million 

 acres of growing forest, and that thirty-five cubic feet of wood are produced 

 annually per tree. 



