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industries and transportation systems. In fact, most of the products 

 used by the American people, whether vegetable, animal, or mineral, 

 use wood somewhere in the process of production, distribution, or 

 utilization. 



As a result of our enormous demand for wood, there has developed 

 a large group of industries engaged in the manufacture of forest 

 products. Foremost among these is the lumber industry, which has 

 to do with felling the trees, cutting them into logs, and getting the 

 logs to the sawmill, where they are sawed into boards and rough 

 lumber (fig 11). Planing mills remanufacture some of the rough 

 lumber into finished lumber, sash, doors, blinds, and other products. 

 Still other plants use the rough lumber for the manufacture of lasts 



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Figure 11. — Lumber Seasoning at the Mills. 



Felled trees are cut into logs for transportation to the mill, where they are trimmed 

 and cut into boards. After the boards have been edged and trimmed, they are sorted 

 and sent to the lumber yard to be piled and seasoned. 



and related products, spools and bobbins, woodenware novelties, 

 toys, and other turned-wood products. The veneer industry cuts 

 from logs the thin sheets of wood used in the making of baskets, 

 berry boxes, and other containers. Veneers are also used extensively 

 by the furniture industry, which also employs other forms of wood. 

 The cooperage industry employs wood in the form of bolts for the 

 manufacture of barrels, kegs, buckets, etc. There are many other 

 industries which manufacture the numerous wooden articles in com- 

 mon use. The products manufactured by forest industries have a 

 yearly value of more than $3,000,000,000, not including paper and 

 paper products, and in the value of its products the group ranks 

 sixth among the leading industries of the United States. 



An important and extensively used product of wood is paper. 

 Wood pulp is the leading paper material, although some paper is 

 made from cotton or linen rags and from various other vegetable 



