Qualities and Uses of the Woods of Ohio 
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than two hundred million feet of lumber. The wood consumers of 
Ohio pay over $40,000,000 annually for the wood they use and fully 
three-fourths of this amount goes out of the state. There can be no 
Fig. 12. A fine white ash timber tree badly injured by lightning. 
doubt that our indifference to wood production Avill compel future gen¬ 
erations to pay exhorbitant prices for lumber. It will also have the 
effect of driving some of the important wood-working industries from 
the state. 
