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sumed by manufacturers in the largest proportion of the amount cut in the 

 State of any home grown tree that is important in the production of lumber. 



Table 3. Consumption of White Pine, year ending June, 1912. 



*Less than 1-100 of 1 per cent. 



Shortleaf Pine (Pinus echinata). 



In quantity shortleaf pine is the most important yellow pine used by the 

 Pennsylvania wood users. It was demanded, next to white pine, in the 

 largest amount of any wood going into final manufacture in the State. 

 Twenty-four industries report using this wood , but over ninety-one per cent, of 

 the total went to three of them: boxes, planing mill products, and car con- 

 struction. Shortleaf pine grows in Pennsylvania and, to a limited extent, is 

 sawed into lumber; but the manufacturers report the use of the home cut 

 wood in very small quantities and purchase almost their entire supply in 

 the southern states. Shortleaf pine is a soft, yellow wood with considerable 

 sap an'd has wider rings than the longleaf pine. Its qualities may be indicated 



