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bound together with heavy wooden bars and iron rods, and left 

 in a dry room for some time. When dry, the box sides are 

 trimmed to exact dimensions by small circular saws. Later 

 cleats are nailed on by machinery. The manufacturers of ve- 

 neer boxes of this kind aim to produce inexpensive boxes with 

 considerable strength. 



Some box makers recall the time when boxes were made 

 Irom clear, white pine, but to-day it is extremely unusual to 

 see even one clear board in any pine box. Not only has the 

 advance in lumber values caused the use of cheaper grades 

 of white pine, but the same is generally true in such woods as 

 hemlock and balsam. Fifty years ago in Maine, the grades of 

 white pine now used for boxes were thrown away as of no 

 value whatever. 



In this report wood used in the manufacture of baskets is 

 included with that shown under the box industry. White and 

 black ash, white elm, and red oak are used in ]\Iaine for baskets. 



TABLE 27. 



Kinds of Wood. 



Quantity Used 

 axntjallt. 



Feet, 

 B. M. 



White pine 



Red spruce 



Loblolly pine. . . . 

 Longleaf pine. . . 

 Bald cypress. . . . 

 Yellow birch. . . . 



Basswood 



Yellow poplar. . 

 Sugar maple. . . . 



White oak 



Red oak 



Hemlock 



Norway pine. . . . 



Balsam fir 



Black ash 



Beech 



White ash 



Paper birch 



Aspen (popple).. 



Chestnut 



Mahogany 



White elm 



Red gum 



Black cherry. . . . 

 Black walnut. . . 

 White mahogany 



Totals 



15.384,500' 



.3,243 000 



1..588 000 



1,210,000 



1 , 163 ,000 



649,. 500 



559 .000 



533,500 



287 ,.500 



233 ,000 



181.000 



171,000 



160,000 



152, 000 i 



65,500 



56,000 



28,000 



27,000 



21,000 



11 ,000 



6.500: 



5,ooo; 



3,500 



1.000 



1,000 



500 



Per 

 cent. 



.59 77 



12 60 



6 17 



4.70 



4 52 



2 5'' 



2 17 



2 07 



1 12 



91 



.70 



.67 



.62 



..59 



.26 



22 



.11 



10 



08 



.04 



.03 



02 



.01 



Aver- 

 age 

 cost 

 per 

 1000 

 ft. 



Total cost 

 f. o. b. factory. 



«20 90 

 IS 43 

 33 56 

 25 .58 



45 23 

 23 99 

 17 .50 

 51 87 

 22 92 

 72 15 

 30 06 



14 78 



19 31 



15 81 

 38 77 



16 41 



46 64; 



15 00 



16 14 

 53 18 



192 31 



20 00 

 38 71' 

 90 00 



100 00 

 250 00 



Grown in Grown out 



Maine. ' of Maine, 



Feet, B, M. Feet, B. M. 



«321,.540 

 ,59 ,7.55 

 .53.290 

 30 ,9,50 

 52 ,605 



15 .580 

 9,784 



29 270 

 6 „5P0 



16 810 

 5.441 

 2,. 527 

 3.090 

 2,402 

 2,539 



919 



1,306 



405 



339 



.585 



1 ,250 



100 



135 



90 



100 



125 



25,741,000 100.00 $23 99 $617,5.30 50 



15, 319. .500 

 2 ,403 ,000 



478,500 

 553 ,000 



243. 500 



139,000 



171,000 



160 .000 



1.52,000 



27,000 



56,000 



3,000 



27,000 



21 ,000 



65.000 



840.000 



1.588,000 



1,210.000 



1,163.000 



171,000 



5.33 ,.500 

 44,000 



233 000 

 42,000 



38,500 

 25,000 



11,000 

 6,500 



5,000 



3,500 



1,000 



1,000 



.500 



19.764,500 5,976,500 



* Less than 1-100 of 1 per cent. 



