Was that really his name?  Ruth





At 9:15 AM -0400 8/8/03, John Leeke, Preservation Consultant wrote:
>Elm, sure enough, doesn't like to split. When Dutch Elm Desease swept
>through the mid-west in the late '50s and early '60s it left a lot of dead
>Elm standing on the stump along the cricks at our place just outside Elmwood
>(actual name, not made up for this story), Nebraska. My dad and I used the
>Red Elm in cabinets and furniture for its fine chocolatey-red color, but
>there was so much of it we ran a lot through the mill and into our stock
>tank production. The Red Elm could hold up to a lot of kicking in the feed
>lots because it was resistant to splitting with its overlapping layers of
>criss-cross grain. I was back there in 2001 when old Earl Kunts pointed at
>the Red Elm stock tank under the wind mill in his coral, briming full of
>water, and wondered if could I make up a couple more so his grandkids
>wouldn't have to worry about stock tanks.
>
>John Leeke, Hayseed
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