WOOD-USINC. INDUSTRIKS OF M.MXK. 



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cedar. This wood makes almost ideal planking for canoes as 

 it is extremely light and meets the requirements of the builder 

 as to clearness and width of stock and ease in working. The 

 quantity brought into Maine from the Pacific Coast States to 

 be used in the manufacture of canoes in 191 1 was 291,500 feet. 

 The average value of the wood f. o. b. Maine factories was 

 $48.27 per 1,000 feet. 



While chestnut grows in the southwestern part of Maine it 

 is not at all abundant. All of that reported by the factories 

 came from other States. It is a tree of the northeastern and 

 ^liddle States and grows best on well-drained gravelly soils. It 

 is an exceedingly rapid grower and sprouts most vigorously. 



The wood is light, rather soft, and stiff but not strong. It 

 .shrinks and checks considerably in dr\ing, works well, and is 

 fairly durable. It is used principally for furniture, cooperage, 

 ties and poles. Large quantities of chestnut wood are con- 

 sumed in some States in the manufacture of tannic acid. Sound 

 wormy stock is used for the invisible parts of caskets, coffins, 

 and furniture. The nuts of the tree are a food product and are 

 gathered both in this country and abroad in large quantities 

 for the market. 



Mahogany. 



The term mahogany should include only the real mahogany 

 {Sivietcnia uiahogoni), but a number of valuable foreign 

 woods are now sold under this name in the United States. The 

 real mahogany comes from .Southern Florida. Cuba, ^Mexico, 

 Central American Countries, and Xrirthern South America. It 



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