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of loblolly pine is larger than that of any other two species, and the 

 greater part of the loblolly is second growth. Of the fifty-four woods 

 reported by the Maryland manufacturers, twenty-seven were supplied 

 wholly or in part by the State, while the country at large and the 

 world were drawn upon for the twenty-seven others. Nine of the woods 

 reported do not grow in commercial quantities in the United States. 

 They are boxwood, tulipwood, ebony, French walnut, rosewood, lig- 

 num-vitae, teak, mahogany, and Circassian walnut. Of the Mary- 

 land-grown pines, the largest use after loblolly was scrub pine (Pinus 

 virginiana), a wood which was formerly seldom used for anything 

 except fuel. The important place which it now occupies shows that 

 efforts to utilize waste have been successful to an encouraging extent. 



In compiling this report, a painstaking effort was made to keep 

 species separate as far as it was practicable to do so. They were not 

 grouped as " pine," " oak," " hardwoods," etc., but as white oak, red 

 oak, live oak, longleaf pine, red gum, etc. The identification and 

 listing were probably not successful in all cases, and in other instances, 

 where use is confined almost exclusively to one species, though the 

 genus includes others, a common term as " ash," or " hickory," was 

 deemed sufficient. In Table 1, which follows, all the kinds of wood 

 reported are brought together. In another part of this report, be- 

 ginning on page 43, all the species are listed alphabetically, and the 

 various uses reported for each are given. 



The State produces two woods in sufficient amounts to meet the 

 requirements of its manufacturers. These are locust and dogwood. 

 They are not timber trees of first importance, yet they are of con- 

 siderable value in Maryland. An exceptionally large use of locust 

 was reported, the total being 936,000 feet, costing $16,200, while in 

 1908 all the mills in the United States reported an aggregate cut of 

 only 1,327,000 feet. This should not be taken to mean, however, that 

 Maryland produces and uses 70 per cent of the locust of the whole 

 country. The figures are probably explained by the fact that the mills 

 of the country reported only what they sawed into lumber, while the 

 Maryland manufacturers included all the locust that came to them, 

 only a very small part of which had ever been in a sawmill. Locust 

 generally goes to the shop or factory as logs, billets, or treenails, and 

 for this reason the report of sawmills includes only a small part of 

 the country's total output of the wood. The sawmill output of dog- 



