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Trees, Stars, and Birds 



U. S. Forest Service 



FIG. 71. Paper leaving the mill for a metropolitan daily. The paper in this 

 photograph represents about one half the amount used by the newspaper each 

 day. Much paper is made from spruce and other evergreens. 



lumber. It is fine grained and easily worked, is light, 

 and for its weight strong, and shrinks evenly when it is 

 dried. The habit which these trees have of growing 

 in large numbers together is also valuable to the lumber- 

 man. It enables him to get out a large amount of 

 lumber of the same kind at one time. 



