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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



other available wood. It is called on for a great number of uses, but 

 principally for sewing- machines, furniture, cabinets, caskets, pews, 

 pulpits and other ecclesiastical furniture. Also for cabinet and pipe 

 organs, parts of automobile bodies, billiard tables, clock cases, etc. 

 In Ohio fourteen industries report buying black walnut. They are 

 listed in the following table: 



TABLE XIV. Black Walnut 



BUCKEYE 



The horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), and the buckeye 

 (Aesculus glabra), the former being probably the more common, 

 both grow in Ohio. Lumbermen and manufacturers make no dis- 

 tinction between the wood of the two species. Buckeye, like cucum- 

 ber, often loses its identity and goes to market mixed with yellow 

 poplar. It is called for separately, however, by the manufacturer 

 of artificial limbs to meet its most exacting use and occasionally by 

 turneries and makers of novelties and athletic goods. Together 

 with yellow poplar it goes for weather boarding, siding and casing 

 and other uses in building for which yellow poplar is required. 

 Buckeye is light, soft, close-grained, compact and difficult 

 to split. The color of the wood is creamy white and quite uniform 

 as the sapwood is hardly distinguishable. 



TABLE XV. Buckeye 



