January 10, 1916 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



17 



TABLE 43 — TANKS AND SILOS 



Quantity used annually 



Per 



Kind of wood Feet b. m. cent. 



Longleaf pine. . .18.000.000 67.08 



Douglas flr 10,510.000 40.00 



Cypress 615.000. 2.34 



White pine 150,000 .57 



Norway pine 2.000 .01 



Average 

 cost Total cost 

 per f. o. b. 



1,000 ft. factory 

 $24.65 $ 369,800 

 38.04 399,800 



46.02 28,300 



35.00 5,250 



30.00 60 



Grown In Grown out 

 Indiana of Indiana 



Feet b. m. 



15.000,000 



10,510,000 



61!i.000 



150.000 



2,000 



Total 



.26,277,000 100.00 $30.57 $ 803,210 

 MANUFACTUBEES OF TANKS AND SILOS 



28.277.000 



Indiana Silo Co., Anderson 

 Red Cross Mfg. Co., Bluffton 

 Bourbon Lumber & Coal, Bourbon 

 Butler Co., Butler 

 L. Henderlon & Co., Crown Point 

 S. F. Bowser & Co., Fort Wayne 



Flint & Walling Mfg. Co., Kendall- 



Tille 

 Perkins Windmill Co., Mlshawaka 

 Nappanee Lumber * Mfg. Co., Nap- 



panee 

 Woodburn Lumber Co., Woodburn 



Agricultural Implements 

 The term "agricultural implements" covers a wide range of 

 articles, and it would be diiEcult to compile a list including all kinds. 

 Hand tools used on farms are not usually counted as implements. 

 Among these are pitchforks, hand rakes, scythes, cradles, flails, hoes, 

 shovels, and others operated by hand instead of horse or steam power. 

 When only the handle is made of wood, it is usually reported by the 

 handle manufacturer and listed in the handle industry. The manu- 

 facturer of the tool buys the ready-made handle, and so can not 

 report the amount of wood used in its manufacture. The dividing 

 line between a farm tool and an implement can not be closely drawn, 

 but it is customary to consider as tools those operated by hand, and 

 implements are those needing additional power. The following list 

 contains most, but not all, of the agricultural implements made in 

 Indiana: Windmills for pumping water, plows, potato diggers, grain 

 separators, threshers, clover huUers, pea huUers, pea rakes, reapers, 

 mowers, grain drills, grass seeders, fanning mills, grain cradles, fer- 

 tilizer spreaders, harrows, cotton planters, eveners, spreaders and 

 straw stackers. 



The important place occupied by hickory is to be expected, in view 

 of the fact that Indiana is a large producer of this wood. It is em- 

 ployed where extreme toughness, resiliency and strength are wanted. 

 Many farm implements contain pitmans or connecting rods, and no 

 other wood equals hickory for that purpose. It is likewise imequaled 

 as eveners, singletrees, and poles for horse-drawn machines. 



Yellow poplar is another wood which fills some of its highest uses 

 when made into seed boxes, chutes, hoppers, and compartments in 

 certain agricultural implements. Its smoothness and its ability to 

 retain its shape are the chief qualities recommending it. Its light 

 weight, in proportion to its strength, is likewise in its favor as im- 

 plement material. The extensive use of yellow pine, which in this 

 industry is principally longleaf, is due to its strength and suitability 

 for frames. Sugar maple is hard and strong, making it desirable for 

 frames and braces. Cottonwood fills places simOar to those where 

 yellow poplar finds its best use. Other woods suitable for similar work 

 are red gum, basswood, silver maple, hemlock, white pine, spruce and 

 cypress. Frame woods, valuable for strength or toughness, are sugar 

 maple, oak, ash, beech, elm, Douglas fir and cypress. 



TABLE 44 — AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS 



Quan 



Kind of wood 

 Longleaf pine. . 

 Sugar maple. . . . 



White oak 



Hickory 



Yellow poplar. . . 

 Cottonwood .... 



Red oak 



Shortleaf pine. . 



Red gum 



V\'hite ash 



Basswood 



Silver maple. . . . 



Hemlock 



Beech 



Black ash 



White elm 



Norway pine. . . . 



Chestnut 



Douglas fir .... 



White pine 



Spruce 



Cypress 



Cork elm 



tity used annually 



Per 



Feet b. m, 



4.548,755 



3,084,660 



2,797,650 



2.760,750 



2,065,000 



2.050.000 



1,630,000 



905,570 



882.000 



740.000 



550.000 



520,000 



367.900 



226,190 



200,000 



200,000 



137.720 



100,000 



100,000 



94,720 



50.000 



10.000 



8,000 



cent. 



18.93 



12.84 



11.64 



11.49 



8.60 



8.63 



6.78 



3.77 



3.67 



3.08 



2.29 



2.16 



1.53 



.94 



.83 



.83 



.57 



.42 



.42 



.40 



.21 



.04 



.03 



Average 

 cost Total cost 

 f. o. b. 

 factory 

 $ 154,880 

 109,542 



per 



1.000 ft. 



$34.05 

 35.51 

 39.15 

 42.83 

 36.76 

 39.41 

 39.77 

 21.28 

 27.05 

 49.43 

 33.55 

 26.73 

 16.52 

 27.15 

 32.75 

 26.00 

 21.00 

 20.00 

 30.00 

 37.73 

 40.00 

 45.00 

 90.00 



Grown in 

 Indiana 



Feet b. m. 



109,530 



118,240 



75,900 



80,800 



64,825 



19,275 



23,860 



36,575 



18,450 



13,900 



6,079 



6.140 



6,550 



5.200 



2,892 



2,000 



3,000 



3,674 



2,000 



450 



720 



880,660 



1,565,650 



730,750 



465.000 



830,666 



2.000 

 490,000 

 175,000 

 365,000 



176,190 

 100,000 



Grown out 

 of Indiana 



Feet b. m. 



4,548,755 



2,204,000 



1,232.000 



2,030,000 



1,600,000 



2,050,000 



800,000 



905,570 



880.000 



250.000 



375,000 



155,000 



367,900 



50.000 



100,000 



200.000 



137,720 



100,000 



100,000 



94,720 



50.000 



10.000 



8,000 



Total 



Co., 



24,028,915 100.00 $35.97 $ 864,382 6,780,250 18,248,865 



Keck-Connerman & Co., Mount Ver- 

 non 

 C. L. Morris, Plymouth 

 American Seeding Machine 



Inc., Richmond 

 Robinson & Co., Richmond 

 M. Rumely Co., Richmond 

 Wayne Works, Richmond 

 Seymour Mfg. Co., Seymour 

 Birdsell Mnf. Co., South Bend 

 Oliver Chilled Plow Works, South 



Bend 

 South Bend Chilled Plow Co., 



South Bend 

 Cyclone Seeder Co., Urbana 

 Hartman Mfg. Co., Vincennes 

 W. H. Clore Mfg. Co., Washington 



Reeves & Co., Columbus 



Thos. M. Bales, Dublin 



Davidson-Dietrich Plow Co., Evans- 

 ville 



Hartig-Becker Plow Co.. Evansville 



American Potato Machinery Co., 

 Hammond 



North Indianapolis Cradle Works, 

 Indianapolis 



Russell Windstaeker Co., Indian- 

 apolis 



Flint & Walling Mfg. Co., Kendall- 

 ville 



M. Rumely Co., Laporte 



Rude Bros. Mfg. Co., Liberty 



American Drill Co., Marion 



Perkins Windmill Co., Mlshawaka 



a. V. Griffith & Son, Muncle 



Handles 

 Few wood-using industries include a greater variety of individual 

 articles than that of handles. They range in size from the cant hook 

 with which the lumberman rolls sawlogs, down to small tool handles. 

 Practically any wood that the forest produces is suitable for a handl* 

 of some sort. Some are demanded because of their strength and stiff, 

 ness ; some for their toughness and resiliency, and some for the smooth- 

 ness of the polish which may be given them. Tools such as blacksmiths 

 and certain other metal workers use require handles with low heat 

 conducting power, to protect the worker's hand from burning. Not 

 infrequently highly colored and artistic woods are demanded, as in 

 the case of pocket knives and curling irons. 



All kinds of handles are not reported by Indiana manufacturers, 

 but the list is long and varied. It includes handles for tools in the 

 following classes: Axe, hatchet, adz, chisel, hammer, pick, shovel, 

 spade, croquet mallet, golf club, hay fork, rake, hoe, file, auger, gimlet, 

 trowel, hay hook, broom, brush, mop, duster, pail, box, package, saw, 

 scoop, sifter and a long line of tools for carpenters, cobblers, tinners, 

 butchers, and for nearly all other artisans and workmen who use tools. 



This is one of the few industries for which the forests of the state 

 supply most of the wood. Three-fourths of it is home grown. Ash, 

 consisting of black and white ash, constitutes more than half of the 

 handle material reported in the state, and most of it is native tim- 

 ber. It is chiefly employed as handles of farm tools. The factories 

 usually receive it in log form, cut in bolts of the desired length for 

 the kind of handles to be made. It is sometimes sawed in squares 

 or sizes to make one handle each, or it is occasionally split. Some 

 of the best handles, not only of ash but of hickory also, are worked 

 from split billets. Cross grain, by which the handle is weakened, is 

 thus- largely avoided. Some of the best hickory axe handles are hand 

 shaved. Handsaw handles are made of applewood, cherry and black 

 walnut; but applewood is the choice. It is customary to steam it 

 several hours to deepen the color and render it uniform. The whole 

 supply comes from old Indiana orchards. Some beech and mahogany 

 are made into saw handles. 



MANUFACTnEEES OF AGEICDLTDEAL IMPLEMENTS 



Stedman Foundry Co.. Aurora Butler Co., Butler 



Red Cross Mfg. Co., Blutfton National Drill Co., Cambridge City 



J. W. Cunningham, Brownstown Caldwell Mfg. Co., Columbus 



TABLE 45— HANDLES 



Quantity used an 



Kind of wood 



White ash 



Sugar maple. . . . 



Beech 



White oak 



Basswood 



Hickory 



Red oak 



Black ash 



Cherry 



Silver maple. . . . 

 Black walnut.. . 



Mahogany 



Cork elm 



Applewood 



Red gum 



White pine . — 



Feet b. m. 



8,865,500 



1,865,000 



1,429,491 



1,065.000 



976,000 



933,000 



752.000 



550.000 



150,000 



110,000 



25,000 



20.000 



15,000 



10,000 



10,000 



10,000 



nually 



Per 



cent. 



62.81 



11.11 



8.52 



6.34 



5.81 



5.56 



4.48 



3.28 



.89 



.66 



.15 



.12 



.09 



.06 



.06 



.06 



Average 

 cost Total cost 

 t. o. b. 

 factory 

 $ 272.495 

 40,785 



Grown in Grown out 

 Indiana of Indiana 



per 

 1.000 ft. 



$30.74 

 21.87 

 16.42 

 42.22 

 20.23 

 28.98 

 42.00 

 2336 

 40.00 

 21.45 

 40.00 

 60.00 

 50.00 



100.00 

 25.00 

 40.00 



23,476 



44,959 



19,748 



27,040 



31,612 



12,850 



6,000 



2,360 



1,000 



1,200 



750 



1,000 



250 



400 



Feet b. m. 



7,390,500 

 970,000 



1,429.491 

 440,000 

 776,000 

 639,000 

 527,600 

 550,000 



60,666 

 25,000 



Feet b. m, 



1,475,000 



895,000 



625, 666 

 200,000 

 294,000 

 226,000 



150', 666 

 60,000 



15,000 

 10,000 



10.000 

 10,000 



Total 



...16.786.591 100.00 $28.95 $ 485.925 12,832,591 3,954,000 



MANUFACTOKEBS 



Auburn Handle Co., Auburn 

 J. M. Buck & Co., Bluffton 

 Peter Kinsley, Bourbon 

 La Fontaine Handle Factory, De- 

 catur 

 Evansville Tool Works, Evansville 

 Fort Wayne Electric Works, Fort 



Wayne 

 Sperry Mfg. Co., Fort Wayne 

 French Lick Mfg. Co., French Lick 

 Indianapolis Wire Bound Box Co., 



Indianapolis 

 H. W. Cook Co., Kewanna 

 Clyde D. Buck & Co., Kokomo 

 Geo. H. Bishop & Co., Lawrence- 

 burg 

 Hillock & Pitman, Logansport 



OF HANDLES 



Marion Handle & Mfg. Co., Marlon 

 S. W. White Lumber Co., Martins- 

 ville 

 J. M. Cherry & Co., Millersburg 

 Geo. W. Harper, Mooresvllle 

 American Lawn Mower Co., Munde 

 J. A. Meeks, Muncle 

 Geo. L. Lamb, Nappanee 

 Edward Martin, Nappannee 

 New Castle "D" Handle Co., New 



Schnither & Son, New Haven 

 Sperry Mfg. Co.. New Haven 

 H. E. Sheller, Portland 

 Dillie & McGuire Mfg. Co., Rich- 

 mond 

 Richmond Handle Co., Richmond 



