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Black cherry. Fine furniture ; cabinet work ; interior 

 finish ; tool handles ; 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 skiffs ; fence posts ; rails ; cooper- 

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

 sassafras. 



Elms. Wheel stock, especially hubs ; buckboard 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) ; 

 cheese boxes ; furniture ; sugar and flour barrel staves ; 

 patent coiled hoops for slack cooperage; agricultural 

 implements ; bicycle rims ; basket making ; gun stocks ; 

 frame timber, of piano cases; wheelbarrows; hockey 

 sticks ; construction of battle ships. 



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



