BALSAM FIR FOR PULP 



ALSAM fir, a tree which a few cylinder faces upon which the pulp i- 



years ago was considered of rolled out. Balsam tir does not have 



"little value, is now in demand a resinous wood, and the material which 



for pulp wood. This demand gums up the cylinder probably comes 



has been brought about, says the from grinding balsam under conditions 



Department of Agriculture, by the adapted to spruce wood. Yet from ten 



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CONE LOADER BALSAM FIR. 

 NOTE THE NUMBER OF CONES ON THIS TREE. IT 

 IS AT SANTA CLARA, FRANKLIN COUNTY, NEW 



YORK. 



enormous expansion of the pulp indus- 

 try during the past two decades, with 

 its present consumption of three and a 

 quarter million cords of coniferous 

 wood and the consequent rise in the 

 price of spruce, the wood most in de- 

 mand for paper making. In addition, 

 the department goes on to say, balsam 

 has begun to take the place of spruce 

 for rough lumber, laths, and the like, as 

 the price of the latter wood has risen. 

 The chief objection to the use of 

 large amounts of balsam fir in the 

 ground-pulp process of paper making 

 is said to be due to the so-called pitch to twenty-five per cent, and possibly 

 in the wood, which injures the felts and more, of balsam can be used in ground 



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Photo, by the American Museum of Natural 

 History and Mr. Ernest Keller. 



A BALSAM FIR. 



THIS IS A FINE SAMPLE OF THE BALSAM FIR. THE 

 TREE IS IN THE OPEN NEAR GOLDEN BEACH, 

 ADIRONDACK MOUNTAINS, N. V 



