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Show Dyers Making Use of Tree Once Condemned It to make wagon spokes and felloes. A new day, however, Is dawning for the hedge apple tree. It Is being turned Into tbe hoppers of some ot the country's large dye factories. This Is developing Into a real Industry Indus-try tn Texas and Oklahoma. The hedge apple tree Is also excellent excel-lent material for telephone cross-arms and Insulator pins. What Is left of the tree Is utilized In the making of fertilizer. Long ago the Indlao made bows of this wood. Every country or section of a country coun-try as It grows casts about for more and more resources that cun be converted con-verted Into marketable finished products. prod-ucts. Tbe American Southwest bas taken tbe common hedge apple tree otherwise known as the Osage orange, the bow wood or the bols d are tree. A row ot these trees compose what farmers call a hedge fence. in the old days Its roots were smoked by boys to whom tobacco was forbidden. Otherwise, tbe hedge tree, with its manifold fruit of large green balls, was unpopular. Farmers condemned con-demned It because, wben used as a hedge. It would not bold their cows and bogs. Motorists cursed It because be-cause It shut off their view at cross-posts, cross-posts, (he hedge tree appeared to be ot little use. A few factories bought |