Roosevelt Standard | 1945-05-17 | Page 6 | Agriculture in the News W. J. Dryden

Agriculture In the News W. J. DRYDEN White Oak , The oaks are among the most important im-portant hardwood species in the United States, due pyy1 to large quantity of ' '-, y ' oak available and its strcnSth and y'SMplh'H beauty- There are 1(HM 60 dlirerent species p-W24 oak, scattered SM i over nearly all j fl' "sj parts of the coun-y coun-y try. The wood of the white oaks generally lacks the reddish red-dish tinge common in the red oaks. It grows slowly, so is not as profitable profit-able for timber planting as red oak. In planting, best results are obtained ob-tained from acorns, instead of transplanting trans-planting the deep taproot young trees. The tree is valuable for ornamental or-namental planting, furniture, flooring, floor-ing, motor vehicle parts, railroad cars, general millwork, boxes and , crates, caskets and coffins, ship and boat building, agricultural implements, imple-ments, railroad ties, fuel, cooperage and mine timbers.