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Red C'edf/r.— Much red cedar is cut in Florida, and 

 scarcely any is used for manufacturing purposes. Pencil 

 makers take much of the best. 



Roseioood. — This is the most expensive and least used 

 wood reported by manufacturers in Florida. A number 

 of trees in different countries are called rosewood. That 

 reported in Florida came from Africa. 



PLANING MILL PRODUCTS. 



This industry is much larger ^than any other among 

 the wood uses of Florida. More than 92 per cent of all 

 the material considered in this report is found in the out- 

 put of planing mills. Not only in quantity, but in vaino 

 it surpasses all the other industries. The cost of 1he 

 rough lumber laid down at the planing mills ready for 

 the machine to work on, was |4,747,165 ; and the cost of 

 all the rough lumber used in the State was $6,464,8^3. 

 Planing mill lumber averaged cheaper than the other, but 

 that does not mean that it is of poorer grades. 



Planing mill products are the simplest forms of manu- 

 facture after lumber leaves the sawmill. In fact, the 

 planing mill is usually an adjunct of the sawmill th^it 

 cuts the logs. The product that comes from the lua 

 chines consists of flooring, ceiling, and siding. f5tocl» 

 sizes and kinds are made and put on the market. It is a 

 commodity which goes from the mill that makes it with- 

 out having any particular market or. buyer in view, and 

 thus differs from those commodities which are largely 

 made to order and for a particular place or purpose 



Longleaf pine leads by long odds all the other woo i«! 

 appearing in Table 2. Nearly 77 per cent consis^s of 

 longleaf, which is at present usually regarded as the 

 most abundant timber tree of Florida, and among the 

 best. Its great strength makes it suitable for flooring, its 

 grain, figure, and color fit it for ceiling, and its lasting 



