Bui. 299, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Plate XII. 
FI253IA 
Fig. 1.— Thirty-five-year-old. natural second-growth white ash cut for handles. 
Fig. 2. — Forty-year-old green ash plantation at Champaign, 111., which will cut 8,000 board 
feet per acre. 
SMALL SECOND-GROWTH ASH VALUABLE FOR HANDLES. 
