November 25, 1918 



Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



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(Continued from paiic 2A) 

 wKich have also attained new values it is not so much of a question 

 as it may seem at first. 



Right now those who have to buy flitches on the outside for 

 making their veneer are facing a serious shortage in supply as 

 w^ell as much higher values. Those who make their own flitches 

 and have gotten in a fair supply of logs are better fixed. Yet those 

 logs not only cost more than formerly, but if they have a higher 

 value for something else why cut them into veneer? In a word 

 the veneer product must yield returns comparable with other oak 

 products taking the same class of timber, and the question of the 

 day is, what price will this make? 



Plainly the quartered oak veneer folks are facing right now a 

 question of prices such as they have never faced before, and this 

 question will likely continue with them for some time in the 

 future. 



An old chair has been found in a hall at Aberdeen, Scotland, 

 dated 1661, which is attracting attention because it has been 

 identified as African mahogany. That date is 150 years earlier 

 than the first mahogany was shipped from Africa, so far as rec- 

 ords show, and it seems to prove an earlier trade in that wood 

 than was supposed. But the "wood doctors" are beginning to 

 disagree. One pronounces the wood not mahogany but apple, 

 while another believes It is yew. If experts cannot agree, it is 

 a waste of time for others to quarrel over the identity of the wood. 

 It ought to occur to some of the disputants to send a small piece 

 of the wood to a dendrologlst w^ith a miscroscope. He might 

 puzzle over its identity, but he could quickly decide between 

 such radically different woods as African mahogany and apple 

 wood. 



Hickory nuts that had been gnawed by squirrels or rats have been 

 found in geological formations believed to be a million years old. 



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