YELLOW POPLAR PROFITABLE 



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From the earliest times poplar has 

 been used in making dug-out canoes, 

 for which it is specially suited since it is 

 easily worked and is light. In this 

 capacity the tree did yeoman service 

 in the early Indian wars of the South. 

 In 1779, an attack upon the Carolina 



food stuffs, and for refrigerators. Its 

 straight grain adapts it to the making 

 of matches, and the ease with which it 

 takes glue makes it useful as a core 

 wood upon which more expensive 

 veneers can be placed. It makes a very 

 good paper pulp. 





THE TREE IN WINTER. 



A TULIP TREE IN ROCK CREEK PARK, WASHINGTON, 

 D. C., SHOWING FLOWER CUPS. 



frontier was threatened by Indians who 

 assembled near Chattanooga. Isaac 

 Shelby, one of the pioneer leaders, had 

 ~>-foot trunks of yellow poplar hewed 

 into canoes, in which he took his 750 

 men down the Holston River to attack 

 the tribes. 



The wood lacks odor, and this quality 

 permits of its extensive use for con- 

 tainers for butter, cheese, and other 



A TULIP TREE. 



THIS TREE IS IN PIKE COUNTY, OHIO. NOTE THE 

 MANNER IN WHICH THE BRANCHES SPREAD. 



The tree grows best on a good, moist 

 soil ; when grown on dry soil the wood 

 is likely to be harder and to consist 

 largely of light-colored sapwood. It 

 will not pay, however, to grow it on 

 rich agricultural bottom lands, which 

 will bring higher returns from the cul- 

 tivation of farm crops. For timber pro- 

 duction, therefore, it should be grown 

 upon the slopes and coves between the 

 bottom lands and the dry heights. 



The days of the old trees are num- 

 bered, and, for this reason, it is desira- 

 ble to pay more attention to the second 

 growth. The second growth, though 

 not to be compared with the old giant 

 trees, which are practically all heart- 



