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species were used) in the manufacture of boxes and crates, and as 

 standing second in cooperage and basket making. Among the many- 

 commodities of which it forms all or a part of the material are basket 

 bottoms, vegetable crates, nail kegs, and boxes for fruits, vegetables, 

 and bottles. It has a regular place in vehicle manufacturing for beds 

 and bodies for wagons and carts, and in boat building for masts, 

 siding, decking, lining, ceiling, cabins, and all kinds of finish and 

 joiner work in skiffs, yachts, motor boats, and sailing craft. It is. 

 widely used by slack coopers. It is standard material for interior 

 finish, and is frequently employed on an equal footing with long-leaf 

 pine, which it closely resembles if carefully selected with regard to 

 grain. It takes finish well, and if painted, as it usually is when used 

 as weatherboarding, it wears well and needs repainting only at long 

 intervals. It makes excellent flooring, and serves for practically all 

 kinds of interior finish — window and door frames, ceiling, wainscot- 

 ing, molding, railing, balusters, brackets, and stair work. Cabinet- 

 makers work it into many articles, and it is seen in wardrobes, clothes- 

 presses, shelving, drawers, compartments, and boxes. It has no less 

 a range of uses in furniture making, going for the most part into 

 frames for couches, lounges, and large chairs. 



A report of the wood-using industries of North Carolina (where 

 conditions are like those in Virginia), in 1909, showed the position of 

 loblolly pine to be similar to that in Maryland. In North Carolina 

 more of it was used than of all other woods combined, the total being 

 considerably more than 300 million feet. Practically every industry 

 of the State that employed wood in manufacturing gave a prominent 

 place to loblolly pine. Nearly 3,000,000 feet were used for telephone 

 cross arms, it being practically the only wood employed for that 

 purpose in the region. A comparatively large use in North Carolina 

 is for tobacco hogsheads. Also, most of the matched flooring manu- 

 factured in that State was from loblolly. 



There are a number of possible ways 1 of profitably utilizing loblolly 

 pine material which at present it is not possible or will not pay to turn 

 into lumber. Among these are the manufacture of wood pulp and 

 paper, the manufacture of ethyl alcohol in certain forms of wood 

 distillation, and for the production of power by means of gas pro- 

 ducers, which gives five times as much heat per cord as does the 

 ordinary method of wood burning. . 



Experiments have shown that it is possible to manufacture an 

 excellent grade of unbleached chemical pulp from yellow pine. This 

 is the kind of pulp which at present is imported in large quantities 

 from Europe, the amount in 1910 being 374,576,000 pounds, valued 

 at $5,831,000. 



1 See article by McGarvey Cline, written while Director Forest Products Laboratory, in the Southern 

 Lumber Journal, Mar. 1, 1912, on "The Possible Utilization of Yellow Pine Stumpage." 



