The National Folding Breakfast Nook Set

when put on the market a year or so agomet with instantaneous favor.

Dealers who are alert to all profit poEsibilities, are selling this itlm in conjunction with the Nationdl BuiIt-In Fixtures.

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testifying that thd material was Long Leaf, and the others stoutly maintaining that it was Short Leaf. That was before the days of the Density Rule for establishing timber values.'

There is a greater difference of opinion in tlie Douglas Iiir country about Fir than there was in those good days about Southern Pine, but in a different way.

You hear Red Fir, Yellow Fir, and Bastard Fir, used as common commercial terms in the Douglas Fir country. All men agree as to the outward characteristics of the first two. But they disagree as to their species, and relationship. And there is a different sort of disagreement about Bastard Fir.

They all agree, to begin with, that no man can tell them apart in the tree. It is only after they are cut that the differences appear. Red Fir is closer, harder grained than is Yellow Fir, the knots are smaller and firmer, and there is a lot of red coloring in the wood. Yellow Fir is mellower, softer, and much lighter in color than the Red .Fir, and better fitted for turning out soft, clear lumber. It is the species from which the great percentage of clears comes. They make everything from both Red and Yellow Fir, but the Red Fir men claim that theirs is the best wood for timber, dimension, etc., as well as splendid for Finish and all other purposes of that sort, except for color. I went through a Yellow Fir Finish Shed last summer rvith a big line yard man from Texas, and he declared that he could not tell the finish from Short Leaf Pine so far as color is concerned, and the grain is very beautiful.

Now, here is where the controversy arises. Some men say that Red Fir is a species in itself, that it is Red Fir rvhen it starts to grow, and always remains tl-rat way. They say that Fellow Fir is a distinct species, and is never anything but Yellow Fir.

You go to the mill next door, and the old experienced rnill man will tell you that there is only the one species. That when the trees are young and growing, they have that Red color in the wood, and they.are called Red Fir. That rvhen the trees mature and after a certain period or age, this Red disappears, and the tree becomes the Old Growth Yellow Fir.

The men who take this stand, mostly agree that the third kind, the Bastard Fir, is in between the two. 'fhat when the change is taking place between the growing Red Fir, and the developed Yellow Fir, the tree is Bastard Fir, and ranks exactly between the two as to qualities. I have had mill men show me this so-called Bastard Fir. When it comes from the saw, it is Yellow. But when it stands a few days, a Red tint begins creeping it. It doesn't get as Red as the Red Fir, which is Red all the time, but is lighter Red. Men who cut this Bastard Fir say that the qualities are also between the other two, the grain being softer and rnellower than in the Red Fir, and not as soft as in the Old Growth Yellow Fir.

I talked to a big owner out there who has a tremendous amount of stumpage. He told me that his timber was almost entirely Bastard Fir, and described its attributes foi me. He said he had ten billion feet of it, and ought to know something about it.

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Another old, experienced, keen mindea i,i*b", manufacturer told me that same day that, ,,There is no such thing as a Bastard Fir. It is either Recl or yellow.,'

Th'C men who hold to the theory that it is all the same species at different stages of growth and age, will tell you that you go into a Yellow Fir forest, and thefe is no slch thing as a young Yellow Fir. That the yot ng tr".s are all Red Fir.

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And then I had others tell me, holding the viewpoint that the Red and Yellow are entirely difierent species, that they can show you plenty of young yellow Fir trees in their woods.

And, mind you, it is all a matter of opinion. I sat down rvith men holding these opposite points of view, and heard them urge their opinions and their reasons, and these reasons and opinions impressed the other fellow not at all. It is true that the Yellow Fir is the biggest growth Fir, although the others also grow very large, "rrd, u, previously statbd; cannot be distinguished in the tree from one another.

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