WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MAINt;. 



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as lumber, while chair makers "usually purchase dimension 

 stock and dowels. 



The manufacture of furniture requires the use of a great 

 variety of wood. A table top requires material that shows a 

 pleasing figure and finishes well. This top may not be a solid 

 piece of wood but may be built up with a tine finishing wood on 

 top, backed by some other cheaper wood, such as chestnut, that 

 holds its shape, takes glue well and stands well in built-up 

 panels. The front of a table drawer needs to be of the same 

 material as the top, but the sides and bottom may be of any kind 

 of wood that works well in this place. Basswood has long been 

 in favor for drawer work. 



It will be noticed that furniture manufacturers of the State 

 use woods native to the State and woods brought from outside. 

 As a general thing the native woods are used for cheaper furni- 

 ture, while expensive woods, such as white oak and mahogany 

 go into the best furniture. 



A large quantity of yellow birch entered into the manufac- 

 ture of chamber suites, tables, hall racks, ond children's furni- 

 ture. The manufacturers of chamber suites use a large num- 

 ber of woods such as basswood, black and white ash, white 

 pine, yellow birch, red maple, white and red oak, chestnut, red 

 gum, mahogany and sugar maple. Red cedar from Tennessee 

 was used in the manufacture of chests. A part of the sugar 

 maple was used in the manufacture of castor wheels. For 

 children's furniture, yellow and paper birch, sugar maple, and 

 beech were used. The manufacture of tables required wood of 

 nearly every kind as shown in Table 37. The spruce shown 

 was used almost entirely for this purpose. 



TABLE 40. 



Kinds of Wood. 



Quantity Used 

 Annually. 



Feet, 

 B. M. 



Per 

 cent. 



Aver- 

 age 

 cost 

 per 

 1000 

 ft. 



Total cost 

 f. o. b. factory. 



Grown in 



Maine. 

 Feet, B. M. 



Grown out 

 of Maine. 

 Feet, B. M. 



Paper birch, . . 

 Aspen Cpopple) 

 White pine. . . 



Totals 



2,575.000 

 325,000 

 150.000 



m Azmo 20 



10 65 18 92! 

 4 92i 19 00; 



$77,775 00 

 6,150 00 

 2,850 00 



3,050,000 100.00 $28 45 $86,775 00 



2,500,0001 

 325,000 

 1.50,000 



75,000 



2,975,000; 



75,000 



