FORESTRY WORKERS OF LOUISIANA 



Mrs. Angus Brown (Curie White) Avery, of Shrevcport, Secretary ot the Louisiana Forestry Association 

 and Recording Secretary ol the Woman's National Rivers and Hai bors Congress (fage 19) 



it is now worth a great deal of money : 

 ash is also quite a factor in wood 

 material, and we have now several large 

 oar factories making fine oars and 

 broom handles, and shipping them to 

 a good many of our foreign countries. 

 Ash is also being used for car siding 

 and ceiling, and, when it is polished, 

 makes a very fine finish. Our large for- 

 ests of oak have also sprung into promi- 

 nence here in the last few years, and 

 oak is now being worked into cross-ties 

 and staves, which are shipped into all 

 foreign countries. A good deal of this 

 heavy oak timber has found its way into 

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Panama, to be used in the construction 

 of the great canal. 



Staves cut from white oak of the up- 

 lands are exported through New Or- 

 leans in enormous quantities to Spain, 

 h'rance, Portugal, and Italy. Stave.- 

 from red oak. are used principally for 

 oil, molasses and whisky barrels. They 

 also furnish excellent spokes for wagons 

 and carts. We have numerous other 

 hardwoods in this state, such as elm, 

 pecan, hickory, hackberry, and syca- 

 more, willow, mulberry, and persim- 

 mon. These woods are usually used for 

 fence posts, tool handles, ax handles. 



