Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1909-09-03
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Prof. IN TREE am
Gosernrsnt AdviSs IN isi saGs III as:p;
Owners III llssesrsss 81
laussd lnntls part 81 the
Unites y tut Esa Sde sto
from M MI ord ing Is a
recent forestry port by the govern
GI1e::ssss.
ID the report the interests of thes
country In general are considered ana
I'm his ight tree growers ii fe I'D VisaSlS
to Keep their trees uncut until they are
sof mature size IS. ,lantstions or red
cedar twenty Ave years old. & says one
report have netted $500 54 AM acre.
European larch. used for telephone III
fence posts, will net from 5000 to $$.225
an acre at the age OF twenty i've years,
i d bite pine att the ripe a Sc oss forty
Syears will prod S300 an mere ma nm
cut timber, while other woods more
than twenty years Of age bring prices
that compare fayorabIy VII these.
But to the ma !, who Is expecting that
I'D ten on fifteen years his tree crop
will reach salable val ue the figures
OF the national forest service are d BIZ
out OF reach. Yet to that Individual
hope is offered In the announcement
that there are uses ana even good
prices paid for trees which range from
the tender age e Six years up and
that the demand for these slender
2striplings IL growing greater eac b years
An example OF this lies In the match
industry alone. This line Of manufacs:
ture has nearly all been merged into a3
great trust which annually pure haseE
Sat good figure thousands OF acres OF
white pine trees any where from Maine
to C-ii fornia. 1t buys these as uncut
timber In size from six inches up and
after clearing the tract moves on TO Its
next forest. La the manufacture OF
barrel slaves and hoops trees Of almost
any tough, flexible wood are used from
the ages Of four to fteen years, while
any straight young trees Of ten years
will make salable flag or tent poles
Young aiders, poplars and willows
of from ten to fifteen years serve man
kind Id the manufacture Of gunpowder.
awE!le the prolific beech and maple.
from six inches Id diameter upward
can be used In the nanuf acture ot
wood alcohol, for d which there is an
enormously increasing demand all over
the country Furniture manufa lecturers
always on the outlook for wood with,
IA fine grain, will take birch, cherry.
walnut, ETC.. not large enough to be.
Used IN making parts of house furnish
ings for use as veneer. Never before
In the history of the United States has
! SO much wood been used in the manu-.
/ facture OF ornaments and toys as Id
now being used for that purpose, and.
thousands OF feet Of spruce are en-
sployed BY manufacturers Of sleighs and
wagons. III
In some parts Of New York and
Z Pennsylvania large quantiti ties OF small
timber are used sfn wood distillation
plants for the production OF acid. while.
sal. over the country small timber Is
used for the mannf acture OF charcoal
Small sizes of timber, particularly the
spruce Of New England, ID used IN the
pulp mills where paper and other wood
pulp products are manufa cfured. Then.
again many small trees are bought
for the manufacture Of toothpicks.
while I'm the mining country of Penn
sylvania and other coal producing
states thousands Of asprags'' are pur.
chasedsto serve their peculiar purpose.
This is to check the speed OF the mule
carts as they go rapidly down the steep
grade Of the mines by being thrown
beneath the wheels. 3asS.
These are only q few OF the hundreds
OF uses to which young timber may be
put II It is near enough to a market
to be sold.