The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12

lower grades could be expected. HAth- drug on the market sufficient to nui- lify the highest prices received for the. best grades.
 Oak tinnbers are widely used in car construction for head sills, bumpers, and boxAcar frames, and the like, for which their. superior strength adapts them. For main sills southern yellow
 pine is used, since oak of sufficient state. Oak plank is in demand for wagon stock and steamer paddle box buckets. Oak is the principal wood used in wheel manufacture, aidf 1t also finds place for furniture, interior finish, handles picker eticker for looms and a number of other pur- poses. Because of it's wider usefuli- ness, oak lumber has higher mar ket value than chestnut. In general. it brings from $25 to $35 per thou sand board feet. although short @ car oak ordinarily ranges from SPA to SEQ, and even less, per thousand. White oak is. of course, much the most val uabIe species: $50 per thousand feet is probably about the average whole sale prices for white-oak blanks and
 
 as much as $40 or $45 per thousand for the best white oak plank up to eighteen feet in length. Rock" or chestnut oak lumber, which closely resembles white oak, is somewhat less valuable than the latter. For "yel- ber, $25 per thousand is. about the average. Ff93 n
 WHITE PINE.
 1r.v, 1oIo ty, and short lengths and small sig es. finds a market as box boards, and brings from $12.50 to $16 per thousand wholesale Square-edged white pine lumber usually sells wholesale for from s20 to $30 per thousand.
 HEMLoCK
 The cut of .hemIock iu the state is aiaIa lively small and unimportanh tA4aleh of it is used local for geliet- brings from $1 7;; to $36 per thousand board feet A sTnalI amount of hem- lock bark isT consumed in the state of tanning.
 ASH
 | Ash. is used for wagon stock picker sticks for looms, furniture, hockey sticks rake and shovel handles and the like. It is bought by factories for from $25 to $50 per thousand, though it occasionally retails as low as from $20 to $22.
 HICKORY 7, Nearly all of the hickory used in Connecticut for carriage spohes is im- ported, since the native timber is too small and too limby for the purpose.
 For automobile spokes, however, 1t finds ready market, and factories Or in plank, paying usually from $30 to $40 per thousand. Native hickory is also manufactured into hockey sticks, tool handles and picker sticks for looms. AE " CROSSTIES
 The market for crossties is remark ably steady. Ties are purchased hy rights of way, which often Very ma terially shortens the length of haul. The railroad pays 50 cents apiece for first-class ties, a price equivalent 10 about $16 per thousand board feet. For the heavy z to ties, P cents eacn is paid or about SIS per thousand board feet, Switch. timbers are pur- chased by the thousand board feet ana must be loaded on cars and involeed like ordinary lumber. Their usual price is g$2o per thousand board feet .... POLES
 A fairly steady market for poles is offered by telephone, telegraph and electric power companies. Poles must Ebei of sound. well proportionedf chest nut, reasonably. straight, without uf- sound knots. and with all knots trim | med close Threes are purchased ssfl the basis of length up. to a clreMn4r | ference of g inches and must coH194ks to the specified circumference etpIn l55 to <6 feet from the butt The The pFIsss | to year. Between 1906 and 1909 the average price paid for poles by one company showed a steady increase or B per cent. The prices paid last year by this. company ranged from $l,2o Tor | q pole, 20 feet long to S15 for a pole sixty feet long.
 CoRDwOOD
 Cordwood has a smaller market value, volume. for volume, than any other of the principal forest products. ] It is so abundant that the sale price often barely covers the cost or get | ting it to market. Except near large towns, a haul of five or six miles IS cutting unprofitable. The annual waste of. good .cordwood material. in AID LUMBER-TAKE TWO
 tops and limbs left in the woods is often enormous. Much of this can be avoided by coaling the wood instne charcoal permits of. longer hauls with profit. The principal species used for cordwood are chestnut. oaks, maple, hickory and gray, birch. Of these, hickory has. the highest fuel value, and near cities sometimes sells for from ST to sS per cord wholesale. cut in four or five foot lengths. Birch is ordinarily of little value because of it's liability to decay sand brings a price of from $3. to $4 Der cord. Maple sells at from .$S.25. to. $475 per cord wholesale, oak from SS.50 to $5, and chestnut from $S to s4.25. Mixed hard wood bring from $S.50 to SAYS whole sale.
 It's durability makes chestnut the species best. suited for piles posts and rails Filing is sold by the running foot to an upper diameter of seven inches Twenty cents per. running foot is the common price for forty to forty-five foot piles. Specifications for fence posts usually call for chest nut, seven and one-half to eight feet long, with . six inches top diameter, with bark removed. They sell from IA to 35 cents apiece. Railing com mands aboutsS cents per running foot delivered at side of road. It is used to a diameter at the smaller end of about four inches