PINE INVENTORY 



fabricating technique -that has no past in the handi- 

 crafts. It has a great future in the coming age of chem- 

 ical technology. 



With new plywoods and lumber improved so as to 

 give new properties and greater strength and durability, 

 wood will also be important in the South for its new 

 chemical values. It makes a vast difference whether one 

 thinks of naval stores as rosin and turpentine or as 

 abietic acid and pinene. So wood as wood is a far 

 different material from wood as lignocellulose, which 

 embraces all the vegetable kingdom oak and pine, 

 apple and mahogany, bamboo, cornstalks, bagasse, even 

 straw. From lignocellulose come rosin and turpentine, 

 the great natural chemical monopolies of the South, and 

 cellulose, the raw material of paper, cardboard, and 

 rayon, the great rivals of the South's cotton. From 

 lignocellulose we also obtain the tannins. Furthermore 

 oils, fats, and the so-called wood sugars make up a fifth 

 of all the woody substance, and finally lignin, a third 

 of all wood tissues, which has been hailed "the greatest 

 waste in all American industry." We shall soon turn 

 this lignin waste into wealth. 



In the startling renaissance of wood, the pine forests, 

 despite reckless cutting, abuse and neglect, careless 

 cattle-grazing and consuming fires, are still one of the 

 South's dominating natural resources. The South is the 

 great agricultural region of this country, yet sixty per 

 cent of all Southern land is timberland; more than two 



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