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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



BUTTERNUT 



Butternut is frequently found growing- in Ohio usually asso- 

 ciated with the beech, elms and maples. It is a species of walnut 

 not infrequently called white walnut. The difference in size and 

 shape of the rough shelled nuts from those of the black walnut 

 easily distinguishes the tree. The butternut is elongated and 

 smaller than the round black walnut. In the wood the color of the 

 heartwood differentiates the two species; the butternut being- a light 

 gray-brown. The popularity of Circassian walnut, a foreign wood, 

 for exterior of furniture, piano cases, store and office fixtures; gun 

 stocks, interior finish, vehicle bodies, etc., has recently brought 

 butternut into greater demand as much of the figured wood 

 resembles that of Circassian walnut and therefore can be made to 

 imitate it. The use of this wood in the following table, for patterns 

 in foundry work and for boxes, is worthy of note. 



TABLE XXV. Butternut 



LOCUST 



Stands of honey locust ( Gleditsia triacanthos] are occasionally 

 found in Ohio. Black locust {Robinia pseudacacia), which botani- 

 cally bears no relation to the former, is more important and more 

 widely distributed. It is a rapid grower and therefore desirable 

 and is being largely used in woodlot management. The wood 

 generally is most widely used for fence posts and then for insulator 

 pins and brackets. The vehicle makers call on it for hubs, the 

 ship builders for kevels, bits and treenails, and Maxwell writes that 

 infrequently the manufacturers turn it into police clubs, castor 

 wheels, and parts of farm implements. 



TABLE XXVI. Locust 



