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bacco boxes ; butchers' blocks ; interior finish ; beehives 

 (hollow log sections) ; butter and lard trays ; wooden 

 bowls. 



Walnut. — Interior finish ; furniture ; gun stocks ; tool 

 handles ; cabinet work ; boat building. 



Hickory. — Axe handles ; wagon stock (especially 

 whiffle-trees ; neck yokes ; spokes, tongues, felloes, axles) ; 

 buckboards ; rustic furniture ; barrel hoops ; screws ; 

 mallets; parts of textile machinery; farm implements; 

 wooden rails (top) ; baskets ; bows of ox yokes ; boat 

 building; hickory bark for flavoring sugar (to imitate 

 maple sirup). 



Oaks (white and burr). — Furniture; wagon and car- 

 riage stock; especially spokes, felloes, hubs, tongues, 

 bolsters ; sandboards ; reaches ; brake bars ; axletrees ; 

 whiffle-trees ; railroad ties ; freight cars (framework) ; ship 

 building ; house building and interior finish ; shingles ; 

 agricultural implements ; bridge building ; mining timber ; 

 wine, beer, and whisky barrels ; parquet flooring ; stair- 

 cases ; splint wood baskets ; hogshead and barrel hoops ; 

 bark used for dyeing. 



Chestnut oak. — Bark used for tanning ; fencing ; 

 bridges; railroad ties; substitute for white oak, but 

 objectionable in tight cooperage. 



Red oak. — ■ Shingles ; furniture ; interior finish ; tight 

 and slack cooperage ; railroad ties. 



Chestnut. — ■ Tanning extract ; coffins ; furniture (cores 

 of veneer furniture and doors) ; interior finish ; shingles ; 

 fencing railroad ties ; sheathing ; Jacob staff for com- 

 passes ; bridge building (trestles) ; telephone poles ; 

 backing of piano veneers ; slack barrel hoops ; staves. 



