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WOOD-USI STRIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



manufactures mo: times as much farm machine 



South Carolina, while Illinois makes tl times as mi: 



nia. 



ked oak, which as here used, doubtless includes a number of 

 Southern oaks, exceeds in amount the three other woods of 

 Table 14 combined, ami the whole (jiiantity of oak i- 

 into plow beams. The makers of cotton stalk cutters took all 

 the longleaf pine used in this industry, drain cradles are com- 

 paratively important. The cradle is a hand tool for cutting oats, 

 wheat, and other small grains. Cradle makers take all the white 

 oak and part of the ash. The remainder of the ash is plow U-am 

 wood. The three agricultural implements thus shown to be 

 manufactured in the State are plows, cradles, and cotton 

 cutters. 



TABLE 14. AGRICULTURAL IMI'U.M I.NTS. 



PATTERNS AND FLASKS 



The "flasks" here referred to are the rough boxes filled with 

 sand, which arc employed in foundries to contain the moulds 

 for casting metal. Patterns are of different kinds. The foundry 

 pattern is embedded in the sand within the flask. After the 

 is tamped hard the pattern i^ removed, and the form left bc> 

 the hollow or mold into which the molten metal is run. < Mher 

 rns are for quite different purposes. They are simply mod- 

 els or copies of some object which i^ to be manufactured. No 

 of such pat 1 made in the sand. While pine i^ the 



Country's be^t pattern w,d. ' and i< little 



inclined to warp out oi , 'ar is much employed 



for p. : >ut is n..t lifted in South (V - 'heapcr work 



is done with loblolly and shortleaf pine. Kinc n pat- 



re of mah.L'any. 



