Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-13

| blackberry, shellbark hickory and slippery
! elm; Maine from her thick forests has sent
The pitch pine. large-toothed aspen ana
| Eastern hemlock; New Mexico from her
mountain sides has given the bull pine,
| white birch and walnut the white oak, white
| ash and chestnut trees take up New Jerseys
| plaae in the row Washington, not long ago
| all forest, helps to uphold the roof with a
| monster canoe cedar an alder tree and
| Western larch Missouri bears her burden
On a short-leaf pine, mocker hickory
AM bald cypress, cut from the forests.
| Nebraska furnishes a spruce tree and oaks,
anfCalifornia has a redwood tree, a sugar
pin hemlock to do duty for her. The
! buckeye tree is Ohio's own. On the hOmely
bukeye is tackled a sign which reads
! ''a9culus glabre." But the loyal OhiOan
prefers the common "buckeye."
Rows of polished woods, all labeled. oaca-
! sionally arranged into some semblance of
order and sometimes used as the material
! fOrta pavilion, make up the interior of the
| Forestry building. British India, Japan.
Siam. tho South and Central American Re-
putIics and France and Germany among
| the European Governments have contributed
exhibitions to the display.
Teak is the wood of India most universally
used. In Europe teak is used for the wood
work of iron ships and war vessels, and in
India tor the construction of houses. The
South Arcot and NelIcre districts of Burmah
furnish the greatest supply Of teak. There
Is p carved doorway in the Forestry Build
Ing which Is a marvel of the wood carvers
art 1t was executed by a famous Mandalay
carver Maung Shevi Dang, and required
wears of labor. The detail work is elabO-
rate The work was done under the direc
ton of the cOnservator Of the forests Of the
eastern circle of upper Burmah, and by him
exhibited. The general outline and design
of the doorway is the same as those used IN
the thrones and in different parts Of Manda-
Law palaces. The doorway is about nine feet
high The carving in triangular space
over the door represents the city of Manda-
Law with the king and his cOurtiers in the
foreground. The lowest tier shows the city
walls with one of its seven-roOfed gateways,
about which stand the guardian 'Nats' AMI
other NEUROLOGICAL figures. On the tier
above are carved the kings ministers, while
above all are the king and his queens in the
pasace.
The carving was done in teak wood and
has a strong odor of sandal oil. There are
tables and mantels delicately carved in ori-
entail designs. One mantel in the exhibit is
of shisham, redwood, walnut, book wood
AMI teak wood. and was raised from the
ruins of Vijanager near Beliary, in Madras.
The teak is 600 years old, and the shis am
dates back before the Christian era. The
mante was designed by three Sikh carpen-
tiers, Aarman, Utam and Gopul, subjects of
thu Maharajah of Kapurthala. Here also
ard slabs of ebony from Indian forests and
ard taDn1ngSs.
Hi&8oos. A doorway OF padouk wood forms
the Nentrance to the British India exhibit.
Thu wood in color is between mahogany and
chs Fry, and in the beauty of the grain is
mcFe perfect than either.
The woods of Japan differ from those of
AMI other Nation. The grain of the trees ex-
hitited is exceedingly fine. Among some Of
the most beautiful and valued woods are the
ito-masa and sugi-moku. The ito-masa is
straight-grained and hard. while the sugi-
moku has a beautiful wavy grain and is softer
than the itO-masa. The yearly rings of the
sugi-moku form in waves, and the wood is
largely used in interior decorations. The
forests of Ono-GOr and Hidi in the province
OF Shinano furnish purplish red wood.
called kat. which takes a beautiful polish
and is chosen by the wealthy for the adorn-
ment Of their houses. The largest part of the
Japanese exhibit is given up to bamboo. The
stocks of bamboo shown range in diameter
from half-inch to one foot and from five feet
In length to over $50 feet. Satsuma, noted
for its bamboo, furnishes the largest part of
the display Special varieties are used for
special purposes by the japanese. The
yashio-tsutsiii is knotty and is used for the
Ornamental posts in the cha-shitsa, or cere-
m0nIal tea-room, of the Japanese mansion.
The lotus wood. which grows in all parts of
Japan, but is found in the greatest quantities
in the central part of the main island, is used
for the ornamental posts of the toxic, or place
OF honor, in the Japanese parlor
On the south porch of the Forestry Building
Is mahogany log thirty-One feet long and
forty-two inches square. the largest slab of
mahogany in the world. 1t was brought from
the mahogany forests of Mexico.
Oregon's lumber men have built house
In the space allotted TO them out of thirty
five varieties of native woods on block from
tide land spruce tree which stood sixteen
feet in diameter at the butt. was 3C5 feet
high and 300 years old The block on eX-
hibi6on was cut twenty-five feet from the
butt and is nine feet nine inches in diameter.
Among the huge logs in the building is
Dou,lass fir saw log from Washington, which
Is twenty-four feet long, seven feet Ill diam
eter and contains 7400 feet of lumber.
The largest plank in the world was cut
from a California redwood tree in Humhoidt
County. and is sixteen feet. five inches Ions.
twelve feet nine inches wide and five inches
thick 1t is highly polished. Cuba and
Trinidad have large displays of native woods.
COLLECTING SOUVENIRS N MACHINERY HALL.
One thing i'll the building (Maehlnery
Hall which seems to have an abiding inter