IHE LIBRARY OF THE 
SEP 3 1943 
UNWERSnV OF ILLINOIS 
Qualities and Uses of the Woods of Ohio 111 
Sweet gum—Coiled hoops, tobacco boxes, pipes. 
Sycamore—Butchers’ blocks, plug tobacco boxes, butter trays. 
Tupelo gum—Root is used for bicycle handles and buoys for fish nets. 
Tulip or yellow poplar—Bungs, biscuit boxes, tobacco hogsheads, cigar boxes. 
Walnut—Gun stocks, carpenter tool handles. 
White ash—Oars, tennis racquets, snow shoes, ball bats, clothes pins, tooth picks. 
Willow—Baby carriages, boys’ ball bats, artificial limbs, charcoal for smokeless 
powder. 
USEFUL PRODUCTS FROM WOOD AND PARTS OF TREES. 
Chewing gum from pitch of spruce, fir and pine. 
Cordage from inner bark of basswood and pawpaw. 
Dyes from sumac and oak bark. 
Flavoring substances from hickory bark, birch bark, fruit of cucumber tree. 
Healing extract from witch hazel and balsam fir. 
Lampblack from white cedar. 
Maple syrup and sugar from sap of sugar maple. 
Oil of wintergreen from sweet birch bark. 
Prussic acid from wild cherry bark. 
Sarsaparilla from sassafras roots. 
Spruce beer from young branches of hemlock. 
Substitute for tea from flowers of basswood, sassafras root bark and buds. 
Tanning substances from bark of hemlock, oak, chestnut, spruce, etc., extract 
of chestnut wood. 
Vanillin from spruce wood. 
Wood vinegar, distilled from birch wood. 
