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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



in a limited area white pine appears. The manufacturers report 

 using- but 25 M feet of home grown white pine and import more of 

 it than any other wood. Next to yellow poplar more of it goes into 

 manufacturing in Ohio than any of the sixty woods reported. 



Table XII following represents three different species because 

 they appear on the market indiscriminately under the name white 

 pine. They are in order of their importance, white pine (Pinns 

 strobus} growing in the Lake states; Norway or red pine (Pinus 

 resinosa) which grows associated with white pine, and usually sold 

 mixed with it, and western white pine (Ptnus monticola) that comes 

 from Idaho, Montana and Washington. The last named is similar 

 to the eastern pine but the wood is a little more brittle, harder and 

 heavier. The average cost of the western white pine being $20 per 

 M feet above the eastern wood can be accounted for in that most of 

 the former was purchased in the upper grades, while a larger part, 

 24 percent, of the latter was bought at low prices to be used only 

 for packing boxes and crating. 



TABLE XII. White pines 



SYCAMORE 



Sycamore grows most abundantly in Ohio on the bottom lands 

 of the streams and on areas bordering swamps and marshes. 

 It grows perhaps to be the largest of any of the common 



