baskets and containers, and plywood. To produce 

 either kind, clear bolts at least 16 inches in diam- 

 eter are desired. 



In 1948 veneer mills used nearly 10 million board 

 feet of veneer logs from Kentucky's forests. About 

 60 percent of this was cut into veneer in Kentucky's 

 6 veneer plants. The rest was shipped to neighbor- 

 ing States for manufacture. 



Black walnut and white oak are in greatest de- 

 mand for face veneer. Yellow-poplar, cottonwood, 

 and soft maple are most popular for rotary veneer. 

 The following tabulation shows the 1948 veneer 

 log production by species from Kentucky's forest. 



Volume 

 M bd. ft. 



Species: 



White oak 1,357 



Yellow-poplar 1,150 



Sweetgiim 1 ,077 



Black walnut 975 



Red oak 254 



Other hardwoods 4,496 



Redcedar 305 



Total 9,614 



Percent 



14 

 12 

 11 

 10 



3 

 47 



3 



100 



The volume shown as "other hardwoods" is made 

 up mainly of soft hardwoods, such as cottonwood. 



soft maple, and sycamore, used principally for ro- 

 tary-cut, container veneer. 



Veneer logs and bolts from Kentucky forests were 

 valued at |72 1,000 at railside. This averages 54 

 cents per cubic foot of wood. Face veneer quality 

 logs are worth about $1 per cubic foot. Soft hard- 

 \voods used for rotary-cut veneer average about 36 

 cents per cubic foot. In spite of the fact that these 

 prices are higher than for most other products, ver\ 

 few timber owners make any effort to save young, 

 potential veneer-log trees. 



In 1948 some 19,000 man-days of labor were re- 

 quired to produce veneer logs. Trees that contain 

 veneer logs are usually scattered and great care is 

 required in cutting them, so the labor per unit of 

 wood produced is greater than for sawlogs (fig. 34). 



Piil[}ivood 



At present there are no pulp mills in Kentucky, 

 and what pulpwood is produced is shipped to ad- 

 joining States for manufacture. In 1948 Kentucky 

 shipped about 47,000 standard cords of pulpwood 

 and chestnut extract wood to 6 plants in adjoining 

 States. Three of the plants buy dead chestnut for 

 tannin extract and make corrugated paper with the 

 residual chips. Chestnut extract wood made up 51 



Figure 54.— Red oak veneer 

 flitches at a sawmill in Al- 

 len County. They have 

 been carefully sawed from 

 high-quality logs and will 

 he shipped to a veneer mill 

 lor further manufacture. 



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Forest Resource Report \o. 7 , U. S. Department of Agriculture 



