Forest Utilization 221 



Black cherry. Fine furniture ; cabinet work ; interior 

 finish; tool handle- : surveyors' instruments. 



Dogwood. Tool handles ; spools, bobbins ; shuttles ; 

 mauls; wheel hubs; machinery bearings; engraving 

 blocks. 



Black gum. Heavy hubs; rollers in glass factories; 

 mangles; ox yokes; stock of sledge hammers in steam 

 forges; veneers for berry baskets and butter dishes; 

 slack barrels ; in cheap furniture for backing and drawers ; 

 barn flooring ; excelsior. 



White ash. Wagons and carriages (poles, shafts, 

 frames) ; interior woodwork ; inner parts of furniture ; 

 mantelpieces; sporting goods (bats, etc.), oars and gym- 

 nastic bars; lances; agricultural implements; tennis 

 racquets ; snowshoes ; skis ; wooden pulleys ; barrel 

 hoops ; pork barrel staves ; baskets ; dairy packings 

 (firkins, tubs, etc.) ; tool handles. 



Sassafras. Light skifTs ; fence posts ; rails ; cooper- 

 age; insect proof boxes; ox yokes. Roots yield oil of 

 sassafras. 



A7///.S. Wheel stock, especially hul ; )>uckl><>anl beds; 

 neck yokes; fence posts; ribs of small boats; top spans 

 in covered railroad cars; railroad ties; tongues for sleigh 

 runners; saddle trees; flooring; exported for inner 

 lining of boats; butcher blocks and churns (butter) ; 

 chc(- boxes; furniture; sugar and flour barrel staves; 

 patent coiled hoops for slack cooperage; agricultural 

 implements; bicycle rims ; la-k.-t making; gun Muck-: 

 frame timber, of piano cases; wheelbarrows; hockey 

 >ticks; construction of hat tic ships. 



Sycamore. Furniture (lining of drawers) ; plug to- 



