. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Canada lumberman and woodworker Scrub Pine. While there is a considerable amount of scrub or Jersey wood standing as timber, it has'hereto- fore has been used only in a very desultory fashion/ and then mostly as fuel, says the Forest Service. About * 500,- 000 acres, or 20 per cent, of the wooded areas of Maryland, and about acres, or 10 per cent, of that of Virginia, is covered with fairly dense stands, while the broad range of tree extends along the At- lant
. Canadian forest industries 1909. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Canada lumberman and woodworker Scrub Pine. While there is a considerable amount of scrub or Jersey wood standing as timber, it has'hereto- fore has been used only in a very desultory fashion/ and then mostly as fuel, says the Forest Service. About * 500,- 000 acres, or 20 per cent, of the wooded areas of Maryland, and about acres, or 10 per cent, of that of Virginia, is covered with fairly dense stands, while the broad range of tree extends along the At- lantic seaboard from southern New York to South Carolina and back over the Appalachians of Central Indiana, where its largest speci- mens are found. While a number of mills have used scrub pine for the manufac- ture of soda pulp and ground wood, no plans have ever operated the sulphite process. Scrub pine might have been used to good advantage long ago, but for the fact that it did not seem to the practical paper maker even worthy of trial. By only slight changes of the regular cooking treatment which is ordin- arily accorded pulp wood in the sul- phite process, however, it has now yielded a pulp product which has been favorably commented upon by numerous members of the paper trade as a substitute for spruce sul- phite in the manufacture of news- paper. When a forest of scrub pine is matured, a fully stocked stand will yield 30 to 40 cords per acre, when economically harvested according to the practical forestry methods. At the present time there is prac- tically no general use for the tim- ber, outside of fuel, although a coarse lumber is made of it and it is sometimes used for fencing. An evidence of the low esteem in which this pine is held is the price which the Maryland wood brings when delivered—$ per cord. there is a good deal less waste than there used to be. Saws cut closer scarfs and the trimmings are used up to the smallest scrap that will serve even to be glued up
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