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available as to the quantity of each kind cut within the State. An 

 early use was for tool handles and this probably more than a.n y 

 other today distinguishes hickory from other woods. On shipboard 

 and in ship building- it is used, but in the latter case only for parts 

 entirely submerged. Belaying pins, oars and pegs are other boat 

 parts usually made of hickory. The hoop pole business has drained 

 the forests of the hickory sapling to a great extent, but in late years 

 sawed hoops made from other woods have begun to replace it to a 

 marked degree. Nearly half of the manufactured hickory goes into 

 the production of spokes and other vehicle parts. Owing largely to 

 variety of special uses to which this wood is put great waste has 

 been occasioned, and it is probable that its waste has exceeded that 

 of any other valuable tree. The wood of hickory is heavy, very 

 hard and strong, tough, close-grained, compact and flexible. The 

 medulary rays are numerous and thin, color brown, sapwood nearly 

 white. 



TABLE VIII. Hickory 



"Less than 1-100 of 1 percent. 



BASSWOOD 



Two species of basswood grow in Ohio; they are the basswood 

 ( Tilia americana) and the white basswood (Tilia heterophylla}. The 

 former is the more important, more widely distributed throughout 

 the State and is the wood found in commerce under the name of 

 linn. Practically all makers of wooden wares find use for basswood, 

 and Ohio builders demand it to a limited extent for interior and 

 exterior construction work, and sometimes for siding. I^arge quan- 

 tities in the form, of thin lumber goes into furniture, for the unex- 

 posed parts like drawer bottoms, backs of case goods, etc., while in 



