February 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



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Handles do not constitute the only parts of farm tools and 

 implements made of wood. Manufacturers of these articles must 

 have more than 320,000,000 feet of wood a year, and the 

 kinds of wood are so various that a place is found for nearly al 

 sorts. More than thirty kinds of wood are regularly listed in this 

 industry, and the more important, with the annual use in feet are 



here eiven: 



Feet 



Yellow Pine 98,000,000 



Oak 69,000,000 



Maple 48,000,000 



Cottonwood 1 5,000,000 



Yellow Poplar 1 2,000,000 



Red Gum 1 2,000,000 



Ash 1 0,000,000 



Hickory 10,000,000 



White Pine 8,000,000 



Basswood 8,000,000 



Elm 7,000,000 



Beech 5,000,000 



Birch 5,000,000 



Spruce 3,000,000 



Cypress 2,000,000 



The South, and particularly the region contributory to Mem- 

 phis, is well represented in this list of woods. The manufac- 

 turers of farm tools and agricultural implements can draw upon 

 the South to almost unlimited extent for the necessary woods 

 for carrying on their business. 



The industry which produces this product is new in comparison 

 with some of the other industries that use wood as raw material. 

 Two or three generations ago there v^rere no agricultural imple- 

 ments, but only tools, with the exception of the plow, harrow, 

 and possibly one or two others; but in recent years hand tools 

 have been dropping to an inferior place and implements of a 

 larger kind, to be operated by some sort of power other than 

 man's muscles, having been taking the field. The change has 

 led to an increase of wood in the manufacture of apparatus for the 

 farm. More w^ood is required to make a reaper than to make a 

 grain cradle. 



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