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INDEX 



Maple, amount for boxes, 251 

 — , black, used for syrup, 379 

 — , boiling for veneers, 97 



— cross ties, amount, 267 



— for pulp, 26, 27, 29, 48 

 , fuel value, 342 

 , hard, charcoal yield, 239 

 , hard, for charcoal, 236 

 , hard, ties, durability, 293 



-, used for distillation, 192, 193, 217 



-, tight cooperage, 146 



-, veneers, amount used, 93 



-, veneer logs, prices, 93 

 — , — , use, 106, 107 

 hoops, 131 

 , lumber cut, 4, 8 

 I lumber value, 10 

 , Oregon, 379 

 , red, used for syrup, 379 

 , silver, used for syrup, 379 

 , soft, charcoal yield, 239 

 , soft, excelsior, 426 

 , staves, sizes, 40 



— sugar orchard, conditions for commercial 



operations, 381 



— syrup and sugar, making process, 394 

 — , sugar, used for syrup and sugar, 378 



— syrup and sugar, uses of, 398 



, value of product, 398 



, woods operations, 385 



, yields of, 396 



, history, 374 



, sap flow and season, 382 



— tree with 32 buckets, illustration of, 399 



— used in mines, 332 

 — , weight, 193 



Maples, species of, used for syrup and sugar, 

 378 



Mariller, C, on charcoal making, 247 



Marine borers, damage by, 320 



Maritime pine, 185, 186 



, illustration of tapping, 186 



used for naval stores, 185, 186 



Marquis, R., on cork, 443 



Martin, Geoflrey, on charcoal and wood dis- 

 tillation, 223 



Maryland, box lumber consumption, 252 



— , wood fuel used, 339 



— Wood Products Co. plant, illustration of 



194 

 Mason, D. T., on utilization of lodgepole 

 pine, 334, 33S 



Massachusetts, box lumber consumption, 252 

 — , lumber cut, 3 

 — , wood fuel used, 339 

 Material, raw, used for paper pulp, 28 

 Mathey, on charcoal burning, 241 

 Mattoon, W. R., on southern cypress, 373 

 Maxwell, H., on wooden and fiber boxes, 261 

 Mechanical process of pulp making, woods 

 used in, 29 

 pulp, cost of producing, 37, 38 



— value of ties, 295 



Mell, C. D., on fustic wood, 423 



, — tanbark oak, 87 



Method of piling poles, 320 



using "S" irons, 291 



Methods of making veneers, 90 



manufacture, rubber, 411 



rubber prodiiction, 404 



tapping rubber trees, illustration of 



409 

 Metric ton, equivalents, 16 

 Mexico, rubber, 406 



Michigan, box lumber consumption, 252 

 — , lumber cut, 3, 7 

 — , wood fuel used, 339 

 Mileage, railway, 263 

 Mill waste, charcoal yield, 238 



used for fuel, 340, 341 



Miller, W., on American Paper-mills, 59 



— , Warner, 21 



Mimosa, 86 



Mimusops balala, rubber, 406 



Mine timbers, amount used, 330, 331, 332 



, annual consumption, 5 



, causes of destruction, 335 



, cost of making, 334 



, durability, 334, 335 



, general, 330 



, kinds, 330, 331, 332 



. prices of, 332, 333 



, specifications, 333 



, value of, 332 



, wastage, 5 



Mining timber, equivalent, 15 



Mines, number, 330 



Minnesota, box lumber consumption, 252 



— , lumber cut, 3, 7 



— , wood fuel used, 339 



Mississippi, box lumber consumption, 252 



— , lumber cut, 3, 7 



— River, barging ties on, 285 

 — , wood fuel used, 339 



