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Show ture. It can be stained In imitation of cherry and other hard woods. There are two kinds of veneering, sawed and sliced, but it takes an expert to tell the difference. The process of manufacture is simple and Interesting. The logs, delivered at the factory in the rough, about thirteen feet in length, are first cooked in hot water vats to make them soft and workable. It does not matter how green- they are. After being thoroughly "cooked" they are placed on machines designed for the purpose and either trticed by a powerful knife the length of the log or cut by a circular saw Into slabs about one-twentieth one-twentieth of the log, and when first cut are so pliable that they can be bent double without breaking. The uniform thickness or thinness of the slabs is M(.rvd by the actl-m of ih machinery, ma-chinery, and does not vary as much as a hair's breadth in the entire length of the slab. After the slabs are sliced or sawed they are seasoned by steaming. This requires only about twenty-four hours, and then they are ready for the market, Indianapolis veneering is sold all over the United States and in Canada. It is in great demand by car builders) and furniture manufacturers, especially oak veneering, which is placed as a finish on softer and cheaper woods. Some of the huge oak logs which come to the" factories fac-tories show by the rings In them that the trees were from 250 to 400 years old. These monarchs of the forest all come from Indiana, and the period of their growth reaches far back beyond the time when white men first entered this part of the country. Indianapolis News. THE VENEERING INDUSTRY. Indianapolis Furnishes a Large Part of Supply for Cabinetmakers. "There is a great deal of so-called oak furniture sold nowadays," said an Indianapolis In-dianapolis dealer, "but a large part of it is veneered. This Is particularly true of parlor and ornamental furniture. Coarse and common furniture may be made of solid oak, but fine furniture is almost invariably veneered. This is because be-cause a much finer finish can be got from quartered oak veneer than from the solid wood. The grain comes out better, and it takes a higher polish. Where strength and durability are required re-quired the solid wood is used, but surfaces sur-faces veneering is preferable.'" Indianapolis Is the largest veneer manufacturing center in the world. There are seven factories here, and their combined output is nearly equal to that of all the other factories In the United States. The Indiana Lumber and Veneer Ve-neer company, the largest of the local factories, has branch establishments In Grand Rapids, Mich., and In New York city, and Its goods go all over the continent. conti-nent. Some of the other factories have almost an equally extensive trade. The one named makes a specialty of quarter-sawed white oak veneering. It also makes walnut, red oak, sycamore syca-more and maple veneer, but about 75 per cent of Its output Is quartered oak. The sycamore used to be rewarded as a comparatively worthless tree, but it works up well In veneering, and finds many uses In the manufacture of furnl- |