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The Forests of Maryland. 



ing their supplies of this commodity from thirty-four different States 

 and thirteen foreign countries. Twenty-six of the fifty-four species 

 of wood reported as used came in part from Maryland, the largest 

 representation of species in other States occuring in Virginia, with 

 twenty-four. West Virginia with twenty, and Pennsylvania with fif- 

 teen. In 1916 just twenty-seven States appear, with the addition of 

 the Philippines. The States of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, 

 Minnesota, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Texas are not now given 

 by manufacturers as the source of wood supplies, and when the rela- 

 tively small size of the New England and Middle Atlantic States 

 among this number, and the length of time during which their stand- 

 ing timber has been exploited and sold, are considered, it is not so sur- 

 prising that they are no longer generally continuing as lumber export- 

 ers. Two new States, however, appear in the list of 1916 which were 

 not in that of seven years before, they being, namely, Idaho and Illi- 

 nois. The amoimt of wood from Illinois is not of course large, but 

 increasing amounts of pines are being sent Bast from Idaho and other 

 far- Western States. All those from which Maryland is now drawing 

 supplies of wood are Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, 

 Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentuckj^, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, 

 Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Caro- 

 lina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vir- 

 ginia, Washington, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Those given in 

 italics are regarded as particularly important. The foreign countries 

 from which this State also receives importations of timber are Africa, 

 Brazil, Canada, the East Indies, Honduras, India, Mexico, Russia, 

 San Domingo, Turkey and the West Indies. Among these the names 

 of Australia, Ceylon and France no longer appear, while the East In- 

 dies and San Domingo are additions since the list of 1909. Those 

 which are given are the foreign lands from Avhich Maryland imports 

 of wood are normally drawn ; probably less than half of them are car- 

 rying on any traffic with the State as this Report is written. 



The various wood-using plants which at present constitute this in- 

 dustry in Maryland are not evenly distributed over the State as a 

 whole, but rather restricted to three principal centers: Baltimore, 

 City and County ; Salisbury ; and Hagerstown. In the State Balti- 

 more leads, of course ; Salisbury, in Wicomico county on the eastern 

 shore, takes second place in the State in importance of its wood-using 

 industries ; Hagerstown, in Washington county, is the principal center 

 of the wood-manufacturing industry in western Maryland, in addi- 

 tion to ranking third in the State. These cities determine also the 

 county leadership, Baltimore, Wicomico and Washington counties 

 leading in the order named. Several things have naturally determin- 



