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Fig. 10. A typical sugar maple in an Ohio farm woodlot. On account of the open 
character of the woods it is branched too low to be of much value. It will 
furnish either sap for sugar or good fuel wood. 
TABLE II. 
Table showing the rate in grams of water absorbed in seven days; the or¬ 
iginal volume in cubic centimeters and the amount and per cent of increase in 
weight and volume, in samples of sixty-two (62) species of Ohio timber. The 
periods were one, three, five and seven days respectively. Species arranged accord¬ 
ing to per cent of increase in volume from the least to the greatest. 
