WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MAINE, 1^7 



harchyood and in Maine the principal hardwood used for this 

 purpose is paper birch. This is, of course, due to the same 

 reasons that fit paper birch for the manufacture of any article 

 which is turned and which needs to come from the lathe with a 

 rather smooth surface. White ash is a favorite dowel wood 

 where exceptional strength is required, but it will be noted that 

 only a small part of the material used by Maine dowel makers 

 was supplied by this wood. A part of the red oak was proba- 

 bly manufactured into dowels for bent chair work. The aspen 

 shown in the table likewise was used for dowels, but in the plant 

 where it was used it constituted only a fraction over one per 

 cent of the entire amount of the material used. 



Miscellaneous. 



The term "miscellaneous" is used not to cover any particular 

 class of products, but to include such articles as can not be 

 included in separate tables. There are in every State industries 

 represented by but one or two plants, and if separate tables 

 were presented for such industries the figures would disclose 

 individual operations. For this reason, it is necessary to include 

 in a miscellaneous table all figures compiled from the reports of 

 such j)lants. Since the figures shown in the miscellaneous 

 table apply to so many classes of products a large number of 

 woods of varying properties are used. 



Included in this table are figures upon the manufacture of 

 lawn swings, excelsior, piano parts, pumps, wood pipe, refriger- 

 ators, tanks, silos, and trunks. The aspen shown in the table 

 was manufactured largely into excelsior. Lawn swings were 

 made from spruce and yellow birch. Piano backs were mada 

 from white pine, beech, sugar maple, red maple, paper birch, 

 yellow birch, red oak and spruce. Beech, yellow birch, and 

 sugar maple were used in the manufacture of electric wire 

 cleats. Wood pipe was made from Douglas fir, redwood and 

 cotton gum, and these woods together with yellow birch, red 

 and white oak were used in the manufacture of pumps. Re- 

 frigerators were made from balsam fir, spruce, loblolly pine, 

 and red oak. White pine, longlcaf pine. Southern white cedar 

 and cypress entered into the manufacture of silos. Trunks 

 were made from white ])inc, yellow birch, sugar maple, and 



