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The Christmas Spirits and the Trees: December: Locust

Locust: Both the Black and Yellow Locusts are very heavy, strong, and durable. Locust wood is widely used for fence-posts and is excellent fuel. It is, therefore, in addition to its beauty, a very desirable tree for the wood-lot. Most of the insulator pins used by telephone and telegraph companies are made from it. During the World War large quantities of Locust wood were used in connection with the building of the wooden ships, being made into what are called "treenails", i.e., wooden pegs and spikes, used instead of metal nails in wooden ships.