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liartiwciHls. 1 wimlil heartily .uii.iii- in yniir 

 proposition tliat tlu' people who own a majority 

 or even lialf of the stumpage of a given lilnd 

 shonid he entitied to have their say ahonl thv> 

 ciassifiealiou and rule-^ ot inspection tliat govern 

 it. At the same lime I tliinlv thai promnlgating 

 a new set ot rnies oii tupelo gum should he a 

 matter of mutual agreement, which can readily 

 Ije obtained between your association and the 

 otiier leading hardwood associatii)ns of the coun- 

 try. I am morally certain that both the big 

 associations woukl lu* very glad 1<» let your 

 people dominate tile tupelo grading roles. It 

 was with this idea lu view that I refrained from 

 printing the rules at the time you promulgated 

 them, to give these other associations an ojiijor- 

 tnnity to adopt your rules before I contributed 

 tti placing them in general circulation among 

 tlie hardwood consuming trade of the country. 



liy the same analogy that is expressed iu your 

 letter the Southern Cypress Maiuifacturers' As- 

 sm-iation. wb()so members are large owners not 

 only of tupelo, but of black and red gum, oai; 

 and other varieties of hardwoods, very likely 

 might also promulgate another set of rules cover- 

 ing each of these woods named. I contend that 

 this multiplicity of grading rules will simply 

 lead to confusion and is not a desirable feature 

 of good hardwood trade ethics unless the rules 

 become a matter of mutual agreement between 

 your members and the other leading hardwood 

 associations. — Hionky H. (Iibson,, Kditor. 



ISiuce the above was written the Hardwood 

 Manufacturers ' Association of the Tlnited 

 States has adopted these rulesl and tliey are 

 printed in full in connection with the report 

 of the district meeting held at Memphis, 

 March 31, elsewhere in this issue of the 

 Hardwood Record. — Editor. 



Proposed Gift of Land for Growing Hickory. 



In the Mail Bag dcpartuieut of the Hakc- 

 AvooD Eecord of March 25 was a letter from 

 Win. L. Hall, chief of forest production of 

 the United States Forest "Service, suggesting 

 that the division of this service which he 

 represents wotdd be glad to take up an ex- 

 periment on the regrowing of hickory if suit- 

 able lands could be obtained without cost to 

 the government. In reference to this sug- 

 gestion on the part of Mr. Hall the follow- 

 ing letter has been received from Col. .M. H. 

 Crump, of Bowling Green. Ky. : 



Editor Haudwood Kicclird : Referring Ii.> ex- 

 periments !u growing hickory, I beg to state that 

 I own in fee simple some 2.500 acres of timber 

 land, much of which is covered with a young 

 gi-owth of very vigorous white hickory. 1 shall 

 b(! pleased to consider the ((uestion of jilacing 



frcm ;'.oii to ,")00 acres of this territory at the 

 disposal of the forestry department. The loca- 

 tion is Kdmonson county, Kentucky, some ten 

 miles from JIammoth Cave. Lock No. (i. .iust 

 I )mpleted by the government, brings ten feet 

 of navigable water to the tract. A preliminary 

 itispection of this tract was made by an officer 

 of the Forestr-y Service several years ago. wlio 

 highly c<uuincnded the growth of young hickory : 

 when last heard of the otiicer was forester lo:- 

 tlM- Sandwich Island.s. — -M. II. Citf-Mi'. 



This proposal of .Col. Crump is very cuui- 

 lucndatory. as, if there is any subject in 

 wliicu the manufacturing lumber trade as 

 well as the industries depending on hicko.y 

 a 1-0 deeply interested, it is the prospect of 

 securing by some means additional supplies 

 of this apparently indispensable wood. — 

 Kditor. 



One of Many. 



M.vlusoN. .\. ('.. Marc'li jr,. — Kditor ll.ilinwuui, 

 Uix-<iKi) : I wish to thank you for the informa- 

 tion you supply concerning dimension stock and 

 the necessary tools for getting it out. I also 

 wish to say that we rough lumber folks are 

 destroying too much timber and not getting out 

 of it what we should, and I tor one wish to 

 make some changes and want to be advised in 

 regard to them. We cannot run a dry kiln in 

 the woods at temporary mills and yards success- 

 fully, so that we need something we can work 

 green or air dry: hence I am figuring on dimen- 

 sion stock and turned work, to get more work. 

 more pay, less movings of my mill, less freight 

 and less timber destroyed. I will be thankfn! for 

 any advice. Tills idea came to me from reading 

 your paper. — E. I*, (.'ahill. 



The writer of the above letter is one of 

 the numerous class of small mill men who is 

 anxious to put his business into more logical 

 and satisfactory shape. While this and other 

 issues of the H.\rdwcod Record contain con- 

 siderable information on the subject, readers 

 who are familiar with corresponding condi- 

 tions and with the dimension business are, in- 

 vited to forward the editor such advice a.s 

 would assist the correspondent in carry ina 

 luit his i)hins successfully. — Kditor. 



Makers of Wagon Stock. 



The Hardwood Record is in receipt of 

 numerous requests from wagon makers for 

 the addresses of manufacturers of wagon 

 stock. It is desired that all coneerrs inter- 

 ested in this line of production, who woukI 

 like to be put in communication with the lead- 

 ing wagon manufacturers of the ITnited 



States, forward their addresses to this office, 

 with a notation of the line of stock manufac- 

 tured. — Editor. 



Exhaustion of Timber in Ireland. 



In a letter reccivi'd Ijy tin' ll.iiinwiioii Uioroiin 

 from S. S. Kuabenshue. United States consul at 

 Belfast, Tslaud. he says: "The first thing that 

 strikes one ou traveling in Ireland is the paucity 

 of timber. If was originally a land of dense for- 

 ests, especially- cf oak. but it now has less than 

 two per cent of its area In timlier. and hardly 

 any of that pos-:esses any value as lumVier. It is 

 a long cry from the time when the Ard-High. 

 the ••over-king" of Ireland, sent to William Hu- 

 fus of England the magnificent beams of Irish 

 oak whicli still exist in the mighty root' of West- 

 minster hall, to the present, when the building 

 lumber ot Ireland is chiefly obtained from Nor- 

 way, lielfasl uses a large quantity of wood 

 paving, the lilocks being of jarrab-wood. imported 

 li-cnl .\nsfralia." 



Walnut Sawmill and Export Walnut Logs. 



An illustration on this page shows the black 

 walnut sawmill of K. H. Fall of Port Clinton. O. 

 In the foreground will be noticed a ca:^load of 

 l)lnck walnut logs prepared for export. Mr. Fall 

 lias been engaged in the exporting cf walnut 

 logs for many years, and recently built an up- 

 to-date sawmill at Port Clinton, where he groups 

 walnut timber from (ihio and neighboring states 

 and prepares the better logs fo;^ export, reducng 

 the remainder to lumber and dimension material. 

 .Mr. Fall's annual output runs into several mil- 

 lion feet. I-'cr a wood that is supposed to be 

 exhausted in a large portion of the original 

 walnut growing territory, it is astonishing to 

 note the quantity of walnut that is annually 

 produced in the middle west. The total output 

 for the last twelve months will aggregate well 

 toward -lli.OdO.OOii feet. 



A large portion of black wa.lnut goes into 

 export, but at the same time there seems to be a 

 renaissance in its home use, as some furniture 

 makers are again commencing to take up the 

 manufacture of special lines out of walnut, and 

 manufacturers of electrical wares are thoroughly 

 committed to the use of this material iu switch- 

 boards and minor electrical apparatus. 



A Fine Indiana Poplar. 



The caravan of poplar logs depicted in the 

 half-tone illustration on this page shows the 

 .output of one poplar tree, owned by Benjamin 

 X. Lukens of Greencastie. Ind. Six logs came 

 out of the tree, but only five appear in the 

 picture, as a twelve-foot log was hauled the day 

 before the photograph was taken. The t^^unk of 

 the tree was eighty feet in length and scaled, by 

 Scribuer measurement, a little over^ 7.-^00 feet. 

 ()f course a tree cf this size would not have been 

 uncommon in Indiana a few years ago, but it is 

 rarely that a like tree is now seen in the state. 



CAU OF KXrill'.T WALNUT LOfiS AND SAW 

 I'OHT CLINTON. O. 



MILL. E. n. FALL. 



CAItAVAN OF TEAMS HAULING LOGS FROM ONE I'OPLAR TRER 

 OWNED BY BENJAMIN N. LUKENS, GREENCASTLE, INIl 



