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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



of ash. TDoubtless much waste material resulting from the manufacture 

 of longer handles was utilized in making these short ones, commer- 

 cially spoken of as edge-tool handles. 



Red gum and sycamore met uses similar to the ash for the long 

 handles of garden tools. These woods were also demanded with white 

 oak, sugar maple, and sweet birch for saw handles of many and various 

 designs. Dogwood went into mallet handles but the particular use of 

 basswood handles was not mentioned. Except small quantities of 

 hickory and dogwood, all of the handle material grew in the State. 



TABLE 19. HANDLES. 



AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS 



The manufacture of plow beams, rungs, and plow handles re- 

 quired the largest part of the wood represented in Table 20. White 

 oak and red oak were the woods used, but nearly three times as much 

 of the former was reported as of the latter. Not all of the beamis and 

 plow handles made in the State are used by the Virginia plow manu- 

 facturers. Many are sent bundled together into other States and there 

 assembled with the iron parts of the plow into the finished product. 

 White oak supplied the largest part of the material for making whirBe- 

 trees and singletrees. The rest of the demand was met by hickory. 



Peanut pickers, tobacco machinery, fertilizer distributors, corn, 

 cotton, and peanut planters and grain cradles were the other agricul- 

 tural implements made in Virginia which were grouped under this in- 

 dustry. Longleaf pine and white oak in quantity were the woods prin- 

 cipally employed for the peanut pickers, though the ash, and yellow 

 poplar having the particular qualifications for the parts for which they 

 were used were equally essential. Implements for tilling, harvesting, 

 and curing of tobacco crops possessing a few wooden parts were made 



