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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Jim Bastian said, "Box elder is basically a giant weed. It has no value for 
anything.........................."


   Who have you been listening to?  Someone else who makes the same rash 
statements?

   Box Elder is used for woodenware and paper pulp.  It does make a poor 
firewood but has more BTUs than Pine and lots of people burn Pine.  AND 
there are lots of folks who make maple syrup from it.  I know of a fellow 
who has 200 of them that he taps to make syrup for sale.

"No value for anything?????"