Putnam patriot., 1909-04-23
Scrub Pine furnishes Wood Pulp Material

Scrub Pine furnishes Wood Pulp Material
 The long neglected aud despised scrub or Jersey pine, growing an tiie abandoned farms and eut-eNef lands oi the East, seems destined ht insl to have reached its fightfnl place as ma fefinl of xnlue. according Ia the results obtained through recent pulp and pa per making tests at the niied rtates Forest Service laboratories sn N ash | ington.
 While there Is considerable amount of this wood standing as timber, Il has | heretofore been used only tn very des' altofy fashion and then mostly IA fuel. About soa ,ulo acres, or 20 per cent. oi the wooded area af Maryland, and about ls0,eoo acres, of lo per cent. ot | that of Virginia, K covered with laifiy dense stands, while The broad range of the tree extends along the Atlantic sea board from southern New York to south Carolina, and back over the Ap'
 palachlans io Central Indiana, where
 
 It's largest specimens are found. While number of mills have used scrub pine for the manufacture ot soda pulp and ground wood, no plants have ever operated the sulrhite process | Scrub pine might have been used to good advantage long ago, but for the | fact that Il did n' seem to the ptaeu- cal paper maker even worthy of tftai. | By only slight changes of the regular | cooking treatment which Is ordinarily accorded pulp wood in the sulphite process, however, il has now yielded pulp product which has been faNofahiy commented upon hy numerous mem' Der, of the pape, trade as substitute for spruce sulphile in the manufacture of newspaper.
 When forest of scrub pine Is ma. tured, A fully stocked stand will yield thirty to forty cords per acre, when economically harvested according te the practical forestry methods. Al the present time there Is practically no
  fuel, although coarse lumber Is made ot II and il k sometimes used for tene' ing An evidence of the low esteem in which this pine k held Is the price which theMaryland wood brings when delivered, s5.75 per cord. The wood it. self Is of light yellow color, with white sap wood. IL is light in weight, Is brittle, and coarse grained. While it Is fairly durable in contact with the weather. it's weak structural properties offset any advantage this might give. One advantage for paper making which scrub pine Is said to have, is the fact that there is considerably less loss in barking IL than with ordinary spruce. The loSs are, in general, rega- lar and not difficult to handle. The wood yields quite easily to sulphite treatment hen using an acid cooking liquor slightly stronger than the ofdi- nary mill strength. In treatment the wood requires from eight ta eleven hours, while the maximum steam pressure has not been over co pounds temperature tl,n degrees ceattgradel and tn some cases 1t was but u pounds. The unhlesehei pulp in these expert. ments k of light grayish or hsownish eolof, mol unlike that from spruce, ot course depending apon the cooking conditions, which can k controlled to suiI The raan0saetafeF.
 The tiher is strong and durable and Is about tne same size as that el spruce. being possibly a tFiiie broader. The yields obtained hs The tovst SefNiee are about the same ss are obtained frum ;he woods now ln general paper making uss. The amount oi screenings Is very low, scrub pine presents no serious dissd, aniaees in regard To