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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



to the wagon makers. It is frame material and only best 

 grades are acceptable. In horse-drawn vehicles a con- 

 siderable quantity of ash is made into tongues of heavy 

 wagons, poles of carriages, and shafts of buggies. It is 

 employed as axles for heavy wagons. In lumber regions 



C'<'(('/t"-(.\ .1. li. chase i'otiif^any, 



WIIITK ASH FOR "TRAP STICKS" 

 The wood is usually used in the construction of musical instruments 

 and this pedal trap work for pianos is made from the very best 

 quality of solid white ash. 



it is in common use for log wagon rollers. In light 

 vehicles, in addition to uses previously named, it is em- 

 ployed as frames for bodies, and thin boards are best for 

 curved panels. Ash is made into vehicles of yet smaller 

 size, and appears as parts of baby buggies, push carts, 

 and hand sleds. Frames of sleighs and cutters are often 

 made of this wood. Its strength and toughness lead to 

 its employment as beds for coal wagons and stone carts. 



Railroad cars owe much to ash. Some is employed as 

 frames and other as finish. It frequently serves the latter 

 purpose in suburban car construction. The entire finish 

 inside is often of ash. More than 3,500,000 feet a year are 

 used by car builders in Illinois, and nearly as much in 

 Missouri. 



Ash is preeminently a wood for miscellaneous uses. 



Courtesy the McClurc Lumber Company. 



A CURIOIS WHITK ASH TWIN BURL 

 The interlaced and contorted libers of this peculiar formation prevents 



the wood from checking or splitting and the burl is in demand for 



making howls and dishes. 



It is peculiarly suited for a few purposes, and is fit for 

 almost anything that demands a hard, strong wood. A 

 list of industries in which it is employed will show this. 

 It was reported by the following industries in Illinois i.i 

 1911: Doats, butter tubs, boxes and crates, buggies and 

 light vehicles, cars, chairs, slack cooperage, electrical 

 apparatus, freight and passenger elevators, farm ma- 

 chinery, furniture, handles, incubators, machine parts. 

 mantels and cabinet work, novelties and tovs, musical 



Courtesy A. B. Chase Compatiy. 



GRAND PIANO RIM 



This is made in three layers, the narrow or thin layers being of white 

 ash and the light and dark layers being a combination of white ash, 

 maple and poplar. 



instruments, picture frames, refrigerators, sash, doors 

 and blinds, window and door screens, school and lodge 

 supplies, sporting and athletic goods, store and office fix- 

 tures, tanks, plumbers' woodwork, trunks and sample 

 cases, vehicles, well and road machinery. 



When it is remembered that each of these industries 

 uses ash for a number of purposes, the general importance 

 of the wood becomes apparent. For instance, it fills a 

 hundred places in furniture, and appears as both out- 

 side and inside material, filling one place where strength 

 is needed, another where hardness is the chief essential, 

 and again where good 

 appearance is sought. 

 Almost every mus- 

 ical instrument that 

 uses wood of any 

 kind has a place for 

 ash. The largest pipe 

 organ has it, and it 

 goes into the mando- 

 lin, and nearly all in- 

 struments between 

 these extremes owes 

 something to this 

 wood. 



It is largely em- 

 ployed by the makers 

 of athletic goods. A 

 common article is the 

 baseball bat. The best 

 type, called "slugger," 

 is usually of ash. The 

 burnisher. a tool which 

 smooths the bat, hard- 

 ens the surface by 

 friction, so that the 

 im])act when tlie ball 

 strikes does not dent 

 the wood. Tennis 

 rackets and croquet 

 sets are f requentlv '""'"' " ^- ^'""'""' * ''''"'"'- 



, ^1 r t' WHITE ASH IS MUCH USED IN 



made partly of ash. tennis rackets 



