OF OHIO 19 



WOODS GROWN IN OHIO 



Table II is a summary of State grown woods, and offers a com- 

 parison of the amounts of the same woods shipped in from the 

 producing" regions of other States. Different from Table I, this 

 summary groups the species alphabetically as to genus instead of in 

 their numerical order. Sixty woods were reported by the Ohio 

 manufacturers and a part of or all of 31 of them were cut in the 

 State. The oaks were the most important as to quantity demanded, 

 followed by the ashes then the elms, maples and hickories mentioned 

 according- to the quantity used. (See Table II on page 18). 



To correct any inaccuracies in separating- the information 

 according" to species as they appear in the summary and the industry 

 compilations, Tables III to XXXIX present the data according" to 

 kinds of wood. For example, the white elm and cork elm have been 

 combined and are shown under a single heading- "elm" likewise 

 the oaks, the gums, the cottonwoods, etc. The principal home- 

 grown woods and a few domestic and foreign woods important as to 

 distribution were the ones so treated and a brief account of them and 

 their apportionment among" the industries are as follows: 



OAKS 



The oak is the most abundant tree growing- in Ohio. In trade 

 there are two general classes, white oak and red oak, but botani- 

 cally they are about equally divided among more than twenty species. 

 The most important are: White oak ( Quercus alba) red oak ( Quercus 

 rubra), bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa\ chestnut oak (Quercus prinus}, 

 pin oak ( Quercus palustris), black oak (Quercus velutind), and scarlet 

 oak (Quercus coccinea). Among the others are chinquapin oak, post 

 oak, overcup oak and black jack oak. The wood of the white oaks 

 ranks first in general utility and is superior to any of the red oaks. 

 They are, however, slow growing species and on account of the long 

 time rotation will probably not be extensively planted when the 

 present supply is exhausted. Red oaks, on the other hand, are fairly 

 rapid growers. The total amount of oak consumed in Ohio is more 

 than 163,000,000 board feet reported by thirty different industries. 

 They form the largest part of the home-grown woods of any of the 

 species, representing nearly one-half of all the woods that were 

 reported as cut in the State. The industries making planing mill 

 products, flooring, wainscoting and other interior finish, alone 

 required over 37,000,000 feet of oak or 22.7 percent of the total, and 

 furniture makers 14.2 percent of the total. These industries, 



