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HARDWOOD RECORD 



Hackberry lumber is not often mentioned in business 

 transactions, because it usually passes as elm, and nobody 

 knows the difference unless a close examination is made. 

 The color of hackberry may be a little whiter than elm 

 and perhaps the growth rings are somewhat more distmct. 



Some mills keep hackberry separate from other lumber 

 and the total so separated amounts to four or five hundred 

 thousand feet a year, but that must be much below the 

 entire production. This cut is reported from Illmois, 

 Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas, and Louisiana. 



Factories which convert hackberry into finished products 

 report the use of 1 , 1 28,000 feet a year in the United States, 

 and it goes into the following commodities: Sash, doors, 

 blinds, and miUwork, 441,000 feet; boxes and crates, 

 315 000; agricuhural implements, 150,000; 

 00,000; furniture, 70,000; saddles, 70,000; 

 tures, 6,000. 



The uses here designated for hackberry lumber afford 

 a guide for manufacturers who are looking for markets. 

 Where strength is not of first importance, it ought to be 

 suitable as a substitute for white elm. The modulus of 

 rupture of hackberry is 12,300 pounds to the inch; white 

 elm 14 600; and cork or rock elm 16,500. Though not 

 so strong as the elms, hackberry is a fairly strong wood, 

 rating about like southern loblolly and northern red pine. 

 Sugarberry is some eight per cent stronger than hackberry. 



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vehicles, 

 office fix- 



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