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The Forests of Maryland. 



mills, and other operators, aggregated 599,455 cubic feet, with a value 

 of $64,696. Lumber ranked first, followed by eordwood, shingles, rail- 

 road ties, pulpwood, poles, and piling. The amount of eordwood cut 

 and sold is no doubt in part accounted for by the proximity of the Bal- 

 timore City market, while the sale of pulpwood is something new as a 

 local forest industry. The markets available for the other products 

 are most excellent, and would probably be able to absorb any increas- 

 ed production which better forest management might bring about in 

 this locality. 



There are lumber yards at Elkridge and EUicott City, but no other 

 wood-using industries worthy of mention in the county. With im- 

 proved systems of State and County highways, and the 44 miles of 

 railway lines also passing through this county, it is possible to market 

 the raw material advantageously at other points, so that the manufac- 

 turing branch of this business has received but little attention here. 

 With the markets of Baltimore and Washington so easily accessible, 

 there is every inducement for the practice of better forest management 

 in Howard County. 



