oblolly and still more with shortleaf this
seems not to be the case. Being widely distributed over many
localities different in soil and climate, the growth of the
shortleaf pine seems materially influenced by location. The wood
from the southern coast and gulf region and even Arkansas is
generally heavier than the wood from localities farther north.
Very light and fine-grained wood is seldom met near the southern
limit of the range, while it is almost the rule in Missouri,
where forms resembling the Norway pine are by no means rare. The
loblolly, occupying both wet and dry soils, varies accordingly."
Cir. No. 12, p. 6.

" ... It is clear that as all localities have their heavy and
their light timber, so they all share in strong and weak, hard
and soft material, and the difference in quality of material is
evidently far more a matter of individual variation than of soil
or climate." _Ibid._, p.22

"A representative committee of the Carriage Builders'
Association had publicly declared that this important industry
could not depend upon the supplies of southern timber, as the
oak grown in the South lacked the necessary qualities demanded
in carriage construction. Without experiment this statement
could be little better than a guess, and was doubly unwarranted,
since it condemned an enormous amount of material, and one
produced under a great variety of conditions and by at least a
dozen species of trees, involving, therefore, a complexity of
problems difficult enough for the careful investigator, and
entirely beyond the few unsystematic observations of the members
of a committee on a flying trip through one of the greatest
timber regions of the world.

"A number of samples were at once collected (part of them
supplied by the carriage builders' committee), and the fallacy
of the broad statement mentioned was fully demonstrated by a
short series of tests and a more extensive study into structure
and weight of these materials. From these tests it appears that
pieces of white oak from Arkansas excelled well-selected pieces
from Connecticut, both in stiffness and endwise compression (the
two most important forms of resistance)." Report upon the
forestry investigations of the U.S.D.A. 1877-1898, p. 331. See
also Rep. of Div. of For., 1890, p. 209.

"In some regions there are many small, stunted hickories, which
most users will not touch. They have narrow sap, are likely to
be birdpecked, and show very slow growth. Yet fiv