WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MAINE;. 1 53 



get out large amounts of house finish, find a great deal of use 

 for small pieces. In some cases waste stock goes into small 

 mouldings, porch balusters and spindles. Other uses for plan- 

 ing mill waste are rails for cabinet doors, corner blocks, win- 

 dow screen frames, and curtain sticks. 



Ship builders and boat and canoe makers also pay consider- 

 able attention to the use of waste material. Wedges are made 

 from the waste in one ship yard, while in another oak, pine, 

 both white and longleaf, and cypress are made into lobster 

 traps, and oak, birch and maple are made into lobster pot sills, 

 scallop drags, and soda sink legs. The manufacture of canoes 

 allows the use of much of the hardwood waste for seats, backs, 

 etc. An oar and paddle shop makes its left-over ash, spruce and 

 maple, into boat hook handles and small flag poles. A ship 

 yard works some of its white ash and spruce into oars. Cart 

 thills are made from birch, beech, and maple, and tree nails 

 from tamarack and white ash. Fish sticks were made from 

 oak and basswood, and white ash and sugar maple went into 

 ice pick handles. 



The manufacture of boxes permits the utilization of large 

 quantities of low gKade stock and mill waste. Small pieces of 

 white pine and basswood can be made into small locked corner 

 boxes. The use of waste for ends of banana and potato crates 

 was reported. 



The closest utilization of wood in the State, probably occurs 

 in the factories which make handles and novelties from paper 

 birch. While many of the lines require selected stock the 

 articles are usually so small that the material is worked up 

 very closely and the waste left is fit for nothing but fuel. The 

 largest item of waste in such mills is, of course, due to red 

 heart, and much attention has been paid to the possible utiliza- 

 tion of this stock. It has been found that sound red heart can 

 be turned into handles and novelties, which are to be enameled, 

 so that color in the wood is no drawback. Red heart is some- 

 times shipped to novelty mills outside of the State for further 

 manufacture. Railroad shims and sugar shooks have been 

 made from refl heart birch. Besides putting rerl heart into 

 enamel work, it is entirely possible to use it for cheap turned 

 boxes and other cheap jobs. A spool mill reports that some 

 paper bird waste is made into bushings: anotlier mill, reports 



