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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



adapted for veneer than lumber. It is popular with the manu- 

 facturers of built-up lumber and in this form is a favorite with the 

 vehicle makers as a body wood and with the trunk makers for trunk 

 boxes, while in furniture making- it serves as mirror backing- and 

 drawer bottoms, veneer boxes and other hidden parts of case goods. 

 The implement makers find many places for this wood as lum- 

 ber but the largest quantities g-o into boxes and crates and particu- 

 larly for receptacles for shipping- meats and other food stuffs. The 

 wood is very light, soft, not strong, coarse-grained, liable to warp 

 and is dark brown in color except the sapwood, which is nearly 

 white. Like yellow poplar it is easily worked and takes paint well 

 and in many uses, being- cheaper, it is often substituted for it. 



TABLE XXL Cottonwood 



HACKBERRY 



It is surprising- that more hackberry was not reported by the 

 Ohio manufacturers than is shown in this report. The tree ranges 

 from New York to Idaho and from the.Great Lakes to the Gulf of 

 Mexico but it reaches its best development and is abundant in the 

 Ohio and Mississippi Valleys. The largest specimens are found 

 growing- on the rich bottom lands. The wood is heavy and strong 

 and is g-enerally used for furniture, vehicles and agricultural 

 implements, but in Ohio it was reported for saddle stirrups, boxes 

 and flooring-. It is sometimes sold mixed with ash. 



TABLE XXII. Hackberry 



