WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF CALIFORNIA. 



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Soft ; light ; easily worked. 

 Rough, clear, 1 to 2 inches thick. 



By-products: rollers, runs, screen-frames, strap handles. 

 >/( ni maple (hard maple, rock maple). New England ; Lake States ; 



Middle West ; South. 



Of total amount of maple manufactured 5.9 per cent used in this 

 idustry. 

 Fruit rolls; harvesters; main boxes of hay presses; rollers and runs 



agricultural implements. 



Strong ; tough ; bores well ; resists splitting ; wears smoothly. 

 Rough, first and second grades, 1 to 4 inches thick. 

 By-products : rollers, runs, screen frames, strap handles. 

 'hilt vnk. plain (eastern oak). Middle West; South. 



Of total amount of oak manufactured 0.1 per cent used in this 

 idustry. 



Agricultural implements; frames for plows; harrows; harvesters; 

 ills for hay presses. 

 Strong, durable against decay. 

 Frames for plows ; rough, clear, f inch. 

 Harrow : rough, clear, 2 to 3 inches. 

 Harvesters: rough, clear, 1 to 2 inches. 

 Sills : rough, clear, 6 by 8, or 8 by 8. 



r ickory. South ; Middle West. 



Of total amount of hickory manufactured 4.0 per cent used in this 

 idustry. 



Almond hullers ; eveners on hay derricks ; harvesters ; hitches on agri- 

 iltural implements ; pitmans and springs on fruit-handling machinery. 

 Hard, strong, tough. 

 Rough, clear, 1J to 4 inches thick. 

 By-products : rollers, runs, screen frames. 



"///'/, ash. Middle West ; South. 



Of total amount of ash manufactured 2.8 per cent used in this 

 idustry. 



Harvesters; screen frames. , 



Strong, wears well. 



Rough, first and second grade, 1 to 4 inches thick. 

 By-products : rollers, runs, screen frames. 



it!><t spruce (spruce). Oregon; Washington. 



Of total amount of spruce manufacture^ less than 0.1 per cent used in 

 lis industry. 



Fruit racks ; seeder construction. 

 Tough, easily worked. 

 Fruit racks: rough, clear, 6 inches thick. 



Seeders : rough, common to clear, 1 inch thick. 



