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of New Hampshire and Vermont. It will be seen by noting 

 the kinds of woods used by the chair manufacturers of the 

 State, that they do not manufacture an expensive line, inas- 

 much as the woods are all native to the State, although small 

 quantities of four species were purchased outside of the State. 

 Steamer chairs and camp stools were made from yellow birch 

 and sugar maple, and hammock chairs were manufactured from 

 black ash and vellow birch. 



Sporting and Athletic Goods. 



The manufacturers of this class of articles in Maine make 

 snowshoes, skiis, bowling pins, taxidermist's shields, baseball 

 bats, toboggans, anrl candle pins which are used locally as 

 tenpins. 



In the manufacture of snowshoes, white ash is used exclu- 

 sively, because of its strength and toughness. Snowshoe mak- 

 ers say that this is the best possible wood for snowshoes. In 

 the manufacture of skiis several woods find use; yellow birch, 

 beeech, anrl red maple. Toboggans were manufactured from 

 yellow bircli, sugar maple and white ash; candle pins from 

 sugar maple and beech ; baseball bats from white ash. The 

 paper birch was manufactured into wood floats for fi.shlines ; 

 white oak was used for taxidermist's shields, and sugar maple 

 for bowling pins. 



T.XBLE 51. 



Kinds of Wood. 



Total cost 

 f. (). b. factory. 



Grown in 



Maine. 

 Feet, B. M. 



Irown out 

 of Maine, 

 ^eet, B. M. 



White pine. . 

 Red spruce. . 

 Mahogany . . 

 Hemlock. . . 

 Sugar maple. 

 Bald cypress 

 Hornbeam. . 



Totals. . 



79 ,850 

 5,000 

 3 ,200i 

 3.000 

 3,000 

 100 

 100 



84.72IJ31 85| 

 5.30 19 00 

 3.40 178 75 

 3.18 18 00 



3.18i 

 11 

 11 



38 00 

 (i5 00 

 20 00 



91,250 100 OOi $35 94{ 



Patterns. 



The manufacture of patterns is usually carried on in foundry 

 and machine .shops, and seldom in separate plants. The Maine 

 pattern makers are chiefly of the first class. White i)ine has 



