DISTILLATION OF STUMPWOOD. 



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mill which submitted the samples was compelled to sell more than 

 a million board feet of yellow-pine lumber at a loss, because of the 

 amount of " pitchy " lumber in the butt logs. Inspection by one of the 

 writers showed a large amount of this wood to be suitable for distil- 

 lation. 



TABLE 6. Average volume of loestern yellow pine and reduction factors for 

 various volumes and diameters of trees and stumps (Idaho and Montana). 



1 See also Figure 2. 



TABLE 7. Cruise of 160 acres of western yellow pine in Boise County, Idaho (all 



trees calipered). 



1 From Table 6. 



2 Total number of cords of stumpwood for entire area. 



