UTILIZATION OF DOGWOOD AND PEESIMMON 
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The offer read : 
Material must be above 4^ inches in diameter, straight, free from knots and 
defects, with not less than 2% inches of sapwood. 
The price for bolts varies with the quality and size of material, and 
is generally not controlled by market quotations, but by the personal 
agreement of buyer and seller. 
Cutting dogwood bolts in slack seasons offers farmers an oppor- 
tunity to earn money in addition to the regular income from farm 
products. Farmers usually cut their fuel wood in the late fall, win- 
ter, and early spring, and in improving their woodlands by cutting 
out the weed trees, wolf trees, and less- valuable species will find it 
jDrofitable to cut the merchantable dogwood, cord it, and carry it to a 
buyer when the opportunity presents itself. 
Fig. 6. — Dogwood cut in Virginia for a dimension mill 
A cord of dogwood is 4 feet high and 8 feet long, made up of bolts 
4 to 5 feet in length. A cord is generally considered to weigh 4,800 
pounds and to contain about 80 cubic feet of solid wood. 
The production of persimmon differs considerably from that of 
dogwood in that lumber companies as well as farmers cut it. Per- 
simmon lumber sold at the mill in 1924 for $35 per 1,000 feet, board 
measure. Persimmon logs were delivered to manufacturers in 1924 
for $12 to $15 per 1,000 board feet, log scale, and persimmon bolts 
were delivered for $10 to $20 per cord. Prices for persimmon were 
as a rule lower than for dogwood. 
THE WOOD 
APPEARANCE 
The average trunk of mature dogwood is composed mostly of sap- 
wood, whereas in persimmon the sapwood may occasionally occupy 
