98 
Ohio Biological Survey 
Our farm woodlots should be producing more and better timber. 
A good tree grows as thriftily and surely as a poor one and if our 
woodlots were given fair treatment the wood grown therein would 
soon take the place of much that now comes from outside the state. 
W e see today on many farms from ten to forty acres of indifferent 
cord wood, where, with slight cost and care, there might be an 
equal quantity of choice timber worth many times as much. 
CLASSIFICATION OF THE USES OF WOODS. 
The demands for wood are so varied that it is difficult to make 
any satisfactory classification of its many uses, but the following 
general divisions show the principal ways in which wood is used: 
1. Construction work, buildings, bridges, trestles, derricks, etc. 
2. Special mill work—sashes, doors, mantles, fixtures, frames, mouldings, etc. 
3. Boxes, crates, baskets, barrels, tanks, silos, etc. 
4. Transportation vehicles, cars, automobiles, wagons, carriages, boats, etc. 
5. Furniture, cabinet work, musical instruments, kitchen cabinets, refrigerators, 
etc. 
6. Agricultural implements, handles, dairy supplies, bee keepers’ supplies, etc. 
7. Posts, boards, rails, pickets, and other fencing material. 
8. Steam and electric railroad crossties. 
9. Poles for support of telegraph, telephone, electric light and power wires. 
10. Household utensils, wooden ware, garden tools, matches, hoops, bungs and 
faucets, brushes, excelsior, laundry supplies, athletic goods, etc. 
11. Mining industry. 
12. Caskets and coffins including boxes. 
13. Wood pulp, paper, cardboard, etc. 
14. Street paving, board and plank walks, conduits, etc. 
15. Wood distillation, charcoal, creosote, wood alcohol, etc. 
16. Fuel. 
BUILDING AND GENERAL CONSTRUCTION WORK— 
One of the largest demands for wood is general construction work. 
The general “bill stuff” of architects and builders, such as joists, 
studding, rafters, stringers, etc., used in framing and structural work, 
consists mainly of yellow pine, white pine, hemlock and white oak. 
There are four species that go under the common name of yellow 
pine, the most important of these are the long leaf pine, the short leaf 
pine, and the loblolly pine. The first named being the hardest and the 
strongest, is the most valuable for frame work and is what all good 
