COMPARATIVE VALUE OF TIMBER 



account. Twenty years after the famous Tay 

 Bridge gale, when so much timber was up- 

 rooted all over the northern half of the country 

 in particular, the writer saw half-rotting 

 spruce and other trees in many of the Scottish 

 woodlands. Then, as well, many by-products 

 of our woods and plantations are lost and 

 chemical wealth wasted, instead of being 

 turned to some profitable commercial use, as 

 is done in most of the Continental forests. 

 We are sadly out of date in the matter of 

 utilising wood waste generally, a fact that is 

 clearly brought home to anyone who wishes 

 to pay a visit to the French seaside planta- 

 tions, where the comparatively useless timber- 

 producing Pinaster or Cluster pine is utilised 

 to the fullest extent in the production of 

 chemical by-products. What a wealth of saw- 

 dust is lost owing to our non-adoption of 

 Continental practices in turning such to many 

 useful purposes for which it is so well adapted. 



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