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bined qualities for balls equal to lignum-vitae. It is very heavy, hard, dense, 

 strong, and keeps its shape. Dogwood is the nearest approach and is used to 

 a limited extent but is not durable. None was reported in Pennsylvania. 



Sugar maple and longleaf pine are the most used woods for bowling alleys. 

 The latter wood, edge grain and best grade, is used for the bed of the alley, 

 and the former for the approach and pin spot end and also for the return 

 track. Spruce or longleaf pine are the best for the gutters, and for the buffer 

 frames and sheathing shortleaf pine and hemlock were called for. 



Pool and billiard tables and shuffle boards account for the rest of the 

 woods not mentioned above which are listed in the table. Chestnut and 

 yellow poplar answers for frames of pool and billiard tables, red oak, white 

 oak, ash, and sugar maple for the legs and also for sides and bodies. Cherry 

 went into triangles for setting pool balls and maple was the orfly wood for cues. 



Table 91. Wood for Sporting and Athletic Goods, year ending June, 1912. 



SADDLES AND HARNESS. 



Hames are the principal commodity included in the following table. They 

 require a tough, strong, close wood. Ash and white oak furnished the largest 

 portion of the supply of raw material in Pennsylvania, which was purchased 

 in the form of squares of various sizes, the principal sizes being 2* inches by 

 2 inches, 30 inches long, and 2| inches by 2f inches, 32 inches long. White 

 ash was the favorite as to quantity. Black ash and hickory, though used, 

 contributed but small amounts. Pennsylvania is the first state in which 

 hickory has been reported by name manufacturers though it has for a long 

 time been used by farmers for hand-made names. According to reports from 

 factories in other states, ironwood, sugar maple, beech, white elm, and 

 red oak are suitable hamo materials though their use was not reported in 

 large quantities. 



White ash was the only wood called for in Pennsylvania for making saddle 

 trees, which is the only product except names classed under this heading. 

 From other similar state reports, ash, though adaptable, is an uninportant 

 wood for this use. The kinds most used named in the order of quantity and 

 selected because of the quality of toughness with requisite weight are: White 



