Bui. 299, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate XII. 



Fig. 1.— Thirty-five-year-old natural second-growth white ash cut for handles. 



Fig. 2.— Forty-year-old green ash plantation at Champaign, 111., which will cut 8,000 board 



feet per acre. 



SMALL SECOND-GROWTH ASH VALUABLE FOR HANDLES. 



