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OUR VANISHING FORESTS 



strong, so that white pine held for many years the 

 place of prominence, but as this wood became scarce 

 and expensive, yellow pine from North Carolina 

 and other southern states gradually took its place. 

 A recent development in this industry is the making 

 of box-board from wood pulp. The canners of 

 fruit and vegetables use great quantities of all kinds 



Barrels are generally manufactured piece-meal, one plant making the 

 staves, another the heads, and a third the hoops. 



of boxes for shipping their product. Fresh-fruit 

 growers are the next largest users, the orange and 

 lemon producers of California alone shipping no 

 less than 20 million boxes of fruit every season. 

 Most of the prepared box and box-shook manufac- 

 turers are located near the canneries and larger cen- 

 ters of population in the east. 



