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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt:...Among them are binders, corn cutters, cotton gins, grain cradles, cultivators, corn planters, ditchers, drills, fanning mills, flails, harrows, harvesters, hay forks, loaders, tedders, rakes, corn buskers, mowers, plows, seeders, and shellers. The large amounts of ash. yellow pine, and sugar maple are required for frames, and much of the ash is made into handles for forks, rakes, and other tools. Yellow poplar is preferred to all other woods by this industry for hoppers, partitions, sides, tops, bottoms, boxes, drawers, and chutes. It is so well liked for such purposes that manufacturers are still willing to pay the prices necessary to secure it, though many other woods might be obtained for much less. There are se%reral others, however, which give good service in place of yellow poplar, and they are bought in large amounts. Among such are the longleaf and shortleaf pines of the South, the white pine and Norway pines of the Lake States, red gum and cypress, which are southern woods, basswood and cottonwood. Frames are made of elm, of which three species were reported for this industry--white elm, cork elm, and slippery elm; frames are made also of hemlock, sugar and silver maple (often called respectively hard and soft maple), and of beech and the oaks, of which four species are named, white, red. yellow and bur oak. A considerable part of the white and red oak listed in Table XV was used as finish; that is, for the handsome outside of certain machines and implements. The only pitch pine listed in Michigan is found in this industry. The quantity is small and it came from Pennsylvania. It is not found in commercial quantity in Michigan, but sometimes Norway pine is locally known as pitch pine. The two are, however, quite distinct species. Nearly a quarter mi...