HEMLOCK

   After reading the information I have gathered you, will see where I am getting my rediscovered Hemlock from and since it has acquired a significant age, it should be safe to assume that it will last hundreds of years more. At the present time Hemlock i.s selling for $2.00 B.F
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Chemicals protect plants against destructive insects. Oak, hemlock, and chestnut trees have tannin, a bitter chemical which protects the trees. Since ancient times people have extracted the tannin from trees and used it to preserve leather.

Early lumbermen of northern Wisconsin were interested in the fine wood they could obtain from the white pine tree. Because the bark of the hemlock tree was a very good source of tannin, others were eager to cut as many of these abundant, 60 to 100 foot trees as possible in order to make money. In northern Wisconsin in 1907 there was more hemlock cut than pine.

Bark was the portion of the tree which tannery operators desired. Hemlock logs remained in the woods and had to be burned by settlers desiring to clear enough land for farming. The moist logs had to be piled high in order to get them dry enough to burn.

Some settlers used hemlock logs to build their cabins.
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