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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry251919amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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THE USES OF WOOD 815 The unfortunate rich open their purses to buy the best Mention has been made of government statistics of that skill and experience can produce, and the poor man is the woods reported by the manufacturers of limbs and able to purchase serviceable substitutes for lost members, that in these figures the limbs, crutches, and surgeons' The surgeon's splint deserves a place in the industry. It is a wood- en patch on nature's limb rather than a wood- en substitute. Many woods can be worked into splints, but complete figures giving kinds and totals appear to be lack- ing; but one excellent wood has been listed. It is the yucca palm of California and Arizona, Yucca mohavensis. It is a peculiar tree, a hard- wood that belongs to the lily family. It develops no annual growth rings, its trunk consisting of woody fibres and soft tissues. Splint makers reduce the trunk to veneers which are then cut in strips of the de- sired size. The strips look like lattice-work or coarse lace. The wood is very stiff, strong, and light, and is an ideal material for splints. The yucca is a desert tree. Its trunk may attain a diameter of a foot or more. Its dark, branches, and leaves are ragged, suggesting in ap- pearance the extinct trees of the Carbonifer- ous Age. Fortunately, a use has been found for the wood, other than as posts for sheep corrals near the water holes in the deserts where this palm ekes out its precar- ious existence. Nearly 40,000 feet, board meas- ure, or ten times that amount if the surface of the splints are grouped in the same industry. It is possible veneer is measured, are yearly converted into splints for to segregate the woods, with fair accuracy, according to reducing broken bones. their uses. The following table lists these woods
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