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Show Wood Distillers Busy. It Is estimated by the New. York state college of forestry that over 640 cords of beech, birch and maple wood are used every day in the wood distillation industry in New York 6tate. The industry has been greatly stimulated by the European war inasmuch inas-much as acetate of lime, one of the principal products of the industry, is used in the manufacture of high explosives. ex-plosives. The price of wood alcohol, another product of the industry, has also risen very largely as a result of the war. |