KINDS or WOOD 



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thousand feet board measure, boot and shoe findings, and boat-building industries 

 paying respectively the lowest and the highest prices. The average value for 

 all uses, $25.91, is $5.56 more than the price reported by the saw-mill. Basswood 

 is reported by nineteen industries and leads in two. Birch is the only wood 

 material which occupies a wider range. 



There is only one species of basswood growing in Canada (Tilia americand) 

 and the small quantity of basswood imported from the United States is cut from 

 the same species. Basswood is light and soft. It has a fine, even texture and a 

 coarse grain. It is odourless and tasteless, tough and easily worked. It does 

 not check, and holds nails and paint well. Its poor qualities are its weakness 

 and non-durability. 



Box and crating industries are the greatest consumers of basswood. Nearly 

 ninety-three per cent of the basswood used is native to the province. Ontario 

 furnishes 7 per cent and the United States a little over one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



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"Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 



Maple is one of the most valuable trees of the province of Quebec and 

 northeastern America generally, not only because it is one of the main sources 

 of hardwood supply of the province but also because of its economic value as a 

 source of food supply in the manufacture of maple sugar. 



The wood-using industries use over ten million feet of maple wood of which 

 over 80 per cent is native to the province of Quebec; 19- 1 per cent is purchased 

 from Ontario, and 0-8 per cent from the United States. 

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