The Penn's Grove record., 1896-01-24
LOSING ms POPULARITY.

FaInut Wood Now 3Efnds Its Chief
Market In Other countris..
As fancy wood. either in furniture O,
q house finishing, walnut has yielded
most Of its prestige toSoak, and now the
mIk of our American walnut goes
broad, Germany taking the major por.
ion of II. At least so per cent Of II
. shipped to London, Liverpool aud
Hamburg. There Ii NO reason why wal
tut should have 20 fallen into disfavor,
tut the fact stands that It Il unfashfon-
lble and 1t must 60. The forelgn ship
nents run along between 100000 and
100000 feet and the bulk Of It comes
rom Kentucky. Tennessee, Ohio, Indi-
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 q rulel Indiana walnut
8 the best. Kentucky has more than
my other State, but itldoes NOT average
Is high as Indiana. The largest walnut
aw-mill In the world il In Chicago,
ind 1t uses about 5000 car-loads a year.
Walnut 10 graded intp f1rsts, seconds,
,eJects and culls. and the price varies
rom s1s to $50 for cu rs and S35 to $40
or rejects to $40 per thousand for arsta
ind seconds. At an average price Of
$50 per thousand, 1t win 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 is forest
rowth, what Is known as "cornfeld
walnut" being hard and irregular,
with more or less windshakes. Walnut
.rees are worth from 81 up, according
10 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
5 found occasionally. As a rule,
hough, walnut branches low, and short
ogs prevail. Figured walnut is a spe-
sialty, and is used for veneering. Its
price varies from 8 cents to 81 a foot.
One man in West Virginia IL reported
20 own a figured tree which cost him
II. 900, for which he asks $4,000, having
refused 5000. There are over 5000
.eet in II. A walnut tree is at its best
1t about fifty years Of age, or rather
t should live that long before 1t is cut
Town for market.
The largest collection Of walnut al
resent ready for market Is at Ironton,
Ohio, cut In West Virginia and Ken.
lucky. There are $4,000 feet OF 1t, OF
rarying grades. One farm in woodford
County, Kentucky, last year furnished
8 1900 for Germany, and $1,000 feet
Tor home consumption The farmer
rot 1888 for the entire lot. One Indi.
ina man 10 looking foria purchaser for
10000 feet which he has collected at
farious points In the State. The bulk
" the shipments are intthe log. and the
average price, from common Mlssis-
iippi points" to Liverpool or Hamburg,
3 $50 per thousand.
Our competitors In tho European mar
tets are Italy and Circhssia. the latter
furnishing BLACK Seat walnut. The
io-called French burls which are ship
ped to this country to come extent are
lot French at all, but G~ircassian, ship
,ed to Marseilles and reshipped from
here. The Italian walnut is small
ind not Of as good quality as the 9th
srs. As might be expected, New York
$ the leading point of consumption In
America, and the largest amount Is
ihipped abroad from there, though
lome goes from Baltimore and Nor
ok. Butternut, which is another spe-
des of walnut, is a soft wood. light in
| ,olor, not much in demand. not large in
mpply, and worth about SIS o thou.
nnd.-New York Sum