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HARDWOOD DISTILLATION. 



Beech, birch, and maple are the principal woods consumed in hardwood 

 distillation. They have been separated in the following table merely to 

 emphasize the kinds used and the quantities are not representative of the 

 actual results but were arbitrarily divided in equal amounts for the want of 

 more definite information. Besides the above named woods, oaks, hickory, 

 chestnut, elm, and ashes were also consumed but in small quantities only. 

 Pennsylvania hardwood distillation plants generally employ the destructive 

 process. Charcoal , crude wood alcohol , and gray acetate are the principal 

 products. 



Table e. Hardwood Distillation. 



VENEER. 



Over 2,500,000 feet of logs in Pennsylvania were converted into veneer in 

 1911. These are not necessarily cut from the forests of the State as veneer 

 logs are sought after over a wide territory and are imported from foreign 

 countries and manufactured into veneer by mills in easy reach of important 

 markets. In Pennsylvania maple was the principal wood consumed, followed 

 by beech, yellow poplar, basswood, oak, birch, and cherry, in the order 

 named. Spanish cedar was the only foreign wood. 



