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Black cherry. — Fine furniture ; cabinet work ; interior 

 finish ; tool handles ; surveyors' instruments. 



Dogwood. — Tool handles ; spools, bobbins ; shuttles ; 

 mauls; wheel hubs; machinery bearings; engraving 

 blocks. 



Black gum. — Heavy hubs ; rollers in glass factories ; 

 mangles ; ox yokes ; stock of sledge hammers in steam 

 forges; veneers for berry baskets and butter dishes; 

 slack barrels ; in cheap furniture for backing and drawers ; 

 barn flooring ; excelsior. 



White ash. — ■ Wagons and carriages (poles, shafts, 

 frames) ; interior woodwork ; inner parts of furniture ; 

 mantelpieces; sporting goods (bats, etc.), oars and gym- 

 nastic bars; lances; agricultural implements; tennis 

 racquets; snowshoes; skis; wooden pulleys; barrel 

 hoops ; pork barrel staves ; baskets ; dairy packings 

 (firkins, tubs, etc.) ; tool handles. 



Sassafras. — Light skiffs ; fence posts ; rails ; cooper- 

 age; insect proof boxes; ox yokes. Roots yield oil of 

 sassafras. 



Elms. — Wheel stock, especially hubs ; buckboard beds ; 

 neck yokes ; fence posts ; ribs of small boats ; top spans 

 in covered railroad cars ; railroad ties ; tongues for sleigh 

 runners; saddle trees; flooring; exported for inner 

 lining of boats ; butcher blocks and churns (butter) ; 

 cheese boxes ; furniture ; sugar and flour barrel staves ; 

 patent coiled hoops for slack cooperage; agricultural 

 implements ; bicycle rims ; basket making ; gun stocks ; 

 frame timber, of piano cases ; wheelbarrows ; hockey 

 sticks ; construction of battle ships. 



Sycamore. — Furniture (lining of drawers) ; plug to- 



