Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-01-29
LOSING ITS POPULARITY.
Taluut Wood Now Tindo 1to SnAe
Market In Other CountFies.

Walnut WOO0 NOW 1hnAo ~
Market In Other Countries.
As fancy wood, either In furniture o.
q house finishing. walnut has yielded
most Of its prestige 10 oak, ana now the
uIk of our American walnut goes
rbroad. Germany taking the major por-
ion of 1t. At least 80 Per cent OF Il
. shipped to London. Liverpool ana
Hamburg. There u no reason why wal
nut should have 20 fallen into disfavor.
,ut the fact stands that It b unfashion-
.ble and 1t must 60. The foreign ship
nents run along between 100000 and
l,6OO, 900 feet, and the bulk OF It comes
rom Kentucky, Tennessee. Ohio. lndi-
ina, Texas, Arkansas. Missouri. Iowa.
Illinois and Pennsylvania, the remain
ng States furnishing little or none.
The finest shipment for 1895 came from
Texas, but, as a rule, Indiana walnut
3 the best. Kentucky has more than
my other State, but 1t does not average
Is high as Indiana. The largest walnut
Iaw-mill In the world 10 In Chicago.
ind it uses about 8. 900 carloads year.
Walnut Is graded into flrsts. seconds,
.ejects and culls, and the price varies
rom S1S to $50 for culls and $35 to $40
:or rejects to $40 per thousand for firsts
md seconds. At an average price OF
$50 per thousand. It will be seen that
he grand total Of the value Of our wal
nut shipments Is not a very large sum.
The best grade Of walnut IL forest
growth, what Is known as "cornfield
Walnut" being hard and irregular,
with more or less windshakes. Walnut
rees are worth from 81 up, according
20 their accessibility. and there Is no
:ule Of finding them. A tree should be
1t least sixteen inches in diameter
while some trees 60 up to over fifty
inches, and a log over sixty feet long
s found occasionally. As rule.
though. walnut branches low, and short
ogs prevail. Figured walnut Is spe-
.ialty. and is used for veneering. Its
price varies from cents to 81 foot
One man in West Virginia Is reported
% own a figured tree which cost him
h,00. for which he asks 1000. having
:efused $4,000. There are over 5000
.eet in 1t. A walnut tree is at Its best
1t about fifty years of age, or rather
should live that long before 1t Ia cut
iown for market.
The largest collection of walnut O.
resent ready for market IL at IrontOn,
Dhio. cut In West Virginia and Ken
mcky. There are 393, 900 feet Of 1t, Of
rarying grades. One farm In Woodford
County, Kentucky, last year furnished
1873, 900 for Germany. and $1,000 feet
'or home consumption. The farmer
rot 1888 for the entire lot One Indi-
Ina man Is looking for a purchaser for
s5O. 700 feet which he has collected at
rarious points in the State. The bulk
If the shipments are in the log, and the
lverage price. from common Mlssis-
Iippi points" to Liverpool or Hamburg.
6 $50 per thousand.
Our competitors in the European mar
tets are Italy and Circassia, the latter
furnishing "Black Sea" walnut The
,o-called French burls which are ship
,ed to this country to some extent are
lot French at all, but Circassian, ship
,ed to Marseilles and reshipped from
here. The italian walnut Is small
md not Of as good quality as the 9TH
.rs. AS might be expected, New York
the leading point Of consumption in
America, and the largest amount Is
Ihipped abroad from there, though
ome goes from Baltimore and Nor
ok. Butternut, which Is another spe-
des Of walnut. Is a soft wood, light in
color. not much in demand. not large in
mpply, and worth about $25 a thou
Mnd.-New York Sun.