THE HARDWOOD RECORD. 



23 



THIS MONTH WE OFFER 



INCH CLEAR SAP GUM 



RANDOM WIDTHS OR ASSORTED. 



For Implement Work, 

 Wagon Bos Boards, 

 Furniture. Cabinet and 

 Wood Specialty Manufacturerf. 



THE FARRIN-KORN LUMBER GO. 



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MANUFACTUKER OF 



BAND SAWED HARDWOOD LUMBER 



QUARTER SAWED INDIANA WHITE OAK A SPECIALTY. 



P. R. aiLCHRIST, President. 



W. B. SMITH, Sec'y and Treas. 



Three States Lumber Co. 



nANUPACTURERS OF 



HARDWOOD LUMBER, 



COTTONWOOD AND GUM 



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MISSOURI ARKANSAS TENNESSEE. 



OFFICE AND YARDS: CAIRO, ILLINOIS. 



GET OUR PRICES. TRY OUR LUMBER. WE SHIP ROUGH, DRESSED, RESAWED. 



COTTON WOOD-GUM 



times prior to tlio groat advances now hold- 

 ing. 



Anotlier conclusion which the logic of 

 this substitution movement seems to war- 

 rant is that it will be broadly helpful to 

 the hardwood market hereafter, in that it 

 will tend to preserve greater price stabilitv 

 by maintaining the equilibrium between 

 the different woods. — St. Louis Lumber- 



WHAT AFTER OAK ? 



A very large i)art of the need for uni- 

 form rules such as it is proposed to make 

 lies in the uuiver.sal use of oak in furni- 

 ture making. Oak is indigenous to both 

 North and South. The wood from the 

 North differs from that of the South, and 

 there are peculiarities in the oak of dif- 

 ferent localities both North and SouflT. 

 But more oak goes into furniture every 

 day than any other wood. All the recent 

 new finishes have been applied almost 

 entirely to this wood, although attempts 

 have been made, with only a moderate de- 

 gree of succes.s, to use them in connection 

 with ash, elm and .some of the other na- 

 tive woods which are closely related to 

 oak, but which have found no such favor. 

 The large consumption of oak which has 

 been going on now for a good many years 

 is in some measure, in all probability, re- 

 sponsible for its increased cost and its 

 apparently limited supply. The conditions 

 which prevail suggest to the veneraljle 

 editor of the American Cabinet Maker the 

 changes which have been wrought in the 

 woods" used in furniture making, which 

 he voices in this way: "The necessity of 

 an American hardwood to take the place 

 of oak, which is becoming so scarce and 

 expensive as to be a serious matter to 

 manufacturers of medium-priced goods, is 

 daily becoming more imperative. Old-time 

 furniture men recall the fact that over 

 thirty years ago manufacturers of walnut 

 parlor frames in New York and Cincin- 

 nati finished them mahogany and rosewood 

 for the New Orleans market, and in the 

 later years, before the modern era of oak, 

 how cherry, birch, beech and even elm 

 were mahogauized, ebonized and scandal- 

 ized to take the place of the disappearing 

 walnut. Neither of these woods ever 

 proved very successful finished natural, 

 neither of them were plenty in the lumber 

 markets of the country, neither of them 

 furnished much large lumber, and for 

 these and other reasons neither of them 

 ever appealed very strongly to the furni- 

 ture trade or to the public, aud the demand 

 created for them was short-lived and never 

 really popular. The abundant oak came at 

 a good time, but manufacturers, as a rule, 

 adopted' it simply as a necessity and con- 

 sidered it only as a temporary expedient. 

 In less than twenty years it is a stronger 

 factor than walnut ever was, not only 

 with the trade, but with the public. It 

 lias loaned itself to so many pleasing fin- 

 ishes and has been popularized to the pub- 

 lic under so many fancy surnames that the 

 thought of supplanting oak Is not a pleas- 



