36 THE WHITE PINE 



never fully succeed. When the inhabitants of 

 any region where fires occur become thoroughly 

 alive and earnest in the desire to prevent and 

 extinguish them, then the danger from that 

 source will be in a fair way to disappear. 



White Pine is fairly wind-firm j much more 

 so than Hemlock. Still it is often thrown by 

 tornadoes and extraordinarily strong winds. 

 In such cases lumbermen peel a strip of bark 

 from the top of the stem throughout the lum- 

 ber length. The rest of the bark becomes loos- 

 ened and falls off, and the wood is saved from 

 the attacks of borers. 



