WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MAINE). 



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T.^BLE 47. 



Butclicrs' Blocks and Skezvers. 



Another of the smaller wood-using industries of the State 

 includes the manufacture of meat blocks, skewers, and sheep 

 sets, which butchers use to hang sheep carcasses on. 



Sugar maple was used in the manufacture of meat blocks, 

 skewers were made from paper birch, beech, sugar maple, and 

 yellow birch, and the last three woods were used in the manu- 

 facture of sheep sets. 



TABLE 48. 



Bungs and Faucets. 



''Bungs and faucets" is a term used in the wood-using reports 

 of the Forest Service, to include the manufacture of bungs, 

 faucets, and corks, and since considerable quantities of cork 

 caps are made each year in Maine, the industry has a place in 

 this report. Cork caps are manufactured by the same plants 

 which make turned boxes, handles and novelties from paper 

 birch. As has been indicated before, the manufacturers of 

 such articles in reporting upon their operations usually indicate 

 two or three general classes of products and do not make de- 



