Cedar posts last a long time and are excellent for use in farm fences.
Chestnut blight, which destroys entire forests of chestnut timber, is gradually exhausting our supplies of this wood.
Chestnut timber has long been used for railroad ties, fence posts and in the manufacture of cheap furniture.

The wood is soft and brown in color.

The bark and wood are treated at special plants in such a way that an extract which is valuable for tanning leather is obtained.

Chestnut trees are upstanding, straight trees that tower 80 to 100 feet above the ground.

The extinction of our chestnut forests threatens as no effectual control measures for checking the chestnut blight disease over large areas has yet been discovered.
The yellow poplar or tulip poplar furnishes timber for the manufacture of furniture, paper, the interior of railroad cars and automobiles.