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Show HICKORY IS VALUABLE WOOD However, Dead Trees and Slaos Afford Af-ford Sheltering Place for Broods of Destructive Beetles. Burn your dead hickory trees and slabs. Dead hickory serves as a winter win-ter home for broods of beetles which attack the living trees in the spring. Hickory is distinctly a native wood of the United Statr-s. No foreign country grows it In any large quantity. quan-tity. It is one of the most valuable-woods valuable-woods in this country. Besides being used extensively by manufacturers, it i used more than all other woods ("unbilled for smoking smok-ing nifats. Hickory gives a greater amount of smoke, gives the ni'-at a pleasant flavor, an even color, burns slowly, and smokes the meat with a smaller amount of shrinkage. Hickory is used for more purposes than any other wood. Every farmi:,-should farmi:,-should burn all de;id trcs on hi farm and so help to conserve the supply sup-ply of hickory. |