Octohcr 



lOlo. 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



17 



Frames, buggy cushion 



Frames, picture 



Frames, store fixture 



Fruit driers 



Furniture, (lining room 



Grilles 



Handles 



Handles, chisel 



Handles, file 



Horse rockers, ciiiidren's 



Hullers, clover 



Interior frames, store tixtures 



Inti-rior work, office desks 



Keys, piano 



Kitchen eahlnets. Interior work 



Locomotive woodwork 



Molding, casket 



.Molding, piano ease 



.Molding, picture 



.\ovclty furniture 



( )rgaus 



I'anr)rama, religious 



riano cases 



I'iano fronts 



Seat frames, ciiair 



Seats, chair 



Separators, threshing machine 



Serving tables, hidden work 



Sewing machines 



Shelving, kitchen cabinet 



Showcases, inside work 



Sideboards, Interior work 



Siding 



Slats, bed 



Stands, typewriter 



Step ladder steps 



Swings, porch 



Tables 



Table tops, kitchen cabinet 



Tops, kitchen table 



Tops, piano 



Trunk boxes 



Tub bottoms 



Tvibs, waslilng miu'ldne 



Wagon dashes 



Wagons 



Water closet tank backs 



Weather boarding 



Window rollers 



•» Hiuill 



There arc .several birches which furnish lumbei-, but most of the 

 jiroduct comes from two, viz.: Sweet birch (lictula lenla) and yellov,' 

 birch (Bctxda lulca). Paper birch (Betula papyrifcra) is cut Iar<rely 

 in New Kngland but is used chiefly for novelties, toothpicks, shoe 

 pegs, and spools. Eiver birch (BeHtla nigra) is sonietiines cut into 

 lumber, but it is of poor color and lacks figure. The birch seen in 

 fine furniture and finish is cut from the sweet and yellow species. 

 Sweet, yellow, ))aper, and river birch all occur in the state, but none 

 of them in laif;e amounts. Birch is one of the finest cabinet woods of 

 the country, and its consumption lias greatly increased in recent 

 years. It is often finished to resemble mahogany. The wood is of a 

 rich brown or reddish color, often finely figured. The value of the 

 wood for the manufacture of boxes and crating is sliown by the fact 

 that makers of boxes and crates are the largest purchasers of birch 

 lumber in the state. The price paid for it indicates that low grades 

 are purchased. Other industries reporting this wood jiay jjrices which 

 indicate better grades. The small lot listed under miscellaneous was 

 carpet sweeper material, and at $200 per thousand feet was iloubtlcss 

 curly liircli which has a very attractive figure. 



4,075.000 4S.07 513.02 



Quantity used 

 annually. 

 Feet b. m. % 

 Industry. 



Itoxes and crates 



Vehicles and ve 

 hide parts 



Furniture 



Planing mill prdcts. 



Sash, doors, blinds 

 and general niill- 

 work 



Plumbers' w o o d- 

 worlc 



Chairs and chair 

 stock 



Frames and mold- 

 ing, picture .... 



Fixtures 



Refrigerators and 



■ kitchen cabinets 



Musical Instru- 

 ments 



Pulleys and con- 

 veyors 10.000 



Sewing machines.. 0.000 



Car construction.. 2.204 



Miscellaneous .... .^00 



T.\BLE 18— CONSUMPTION- OF BIRCH 



Grown 

 In Ind. 

 'eet b. in. 



Av. coat Total cost 



per f.o.b. 



3,000 ft. factory. 



Grown 

 out of Ind. 

 Feet b. m. 



I,r.20,.'i00 

 '.(01,27!l 

 S80.12t) 



.■■j70,(l(ill 

 522,000 



iss.ri2.s 



112.000 

 103,000 



!)i..5no 



70,000 



13.04 

 II. .SI) 

 9.11 



SO 



.-I.ST 

 1.'.I4 



1.13 

 l.UU 



14 



01 



44.98 

 27.01 

 41.47 



.■!0.41 

 .•i2.4li 



40.40 

 30.07 



30.61 



43.10 



l.S.OO 



50.00 



34.03 



200.00 



$ 70,223 



68,385 

 2fl,.53S 

 30,743 



20,733 



10,943 



3.S30 



3.204 

 3.713 



2.801 



3,280 



ISO 

 300 



100 



23,000 4,0.30,000 



500 

 38,000 

 37,000 



30,000 



3,UO0 



1,520.000 

 923.279 

 S2!l,12o 



370,000 

 472,000 



18S,52S 



112.000 

 100,000 



91,500 



70,000 



10,000 



3.000 



2.204 



500 



Total 9.724.031100.00 ?20.C4 $259,072 176.500 9.348,131 



USES OF 



Keds 



Benches 



Cabinet work 



('abinets, kitchen 



Cases, carpet sweeper 



Chair bottoms 



Chair rockers 



Closet scats 



Closet tanks 



Cores, piano case 



Conveyors, feed grinder 



Couches 



Crating 



Davenport ends 



Doors, cbifforobcs 



Doors, wardrobes 



Drawer bottoms, kitchen cabinet 



Dressers 



Dressing tables, exterior work 



End rails, chifforobes 



Bincn 

 End rails, wardrobes 

 Fixtures, bank 

 Fixtures, store 

 Frames, picture 

 Interior finish 

 Molding, piano case 

 Molding, picture 

 Organs 

 Pianos 



PostoflBce table tops 

 Rockers, chair 

 Seats, water closet 

 Sewing machine cabinet worl; 

 Stair work 

 Stools 



Tables, dining 

 Tables, library 

 Tanks, water closet 

 Tops, postoflice furniture 

 Washstands 



White Elm 

 Four elms, possibly five, are sawed into lumber in the United 

 States, but in statistics of output the lumber of all is listed at the 



mill yard as if cut from a single species. Botanists clearly distinguish 

 tlie several elms as white or gray (Vlmxui americana), cork or rock 

 (Ulmiis racemosa), red or slippery (Ulmus pnhcxccn.s). wing elm 

 (Ulmu.i alaia), and cedar elm (Vlmus crassifolia) . The sawmill cut of 

 all elm lumber in fhe United States totaled 214,532,000 feet in 1913, 

 of which Indiana produced 20,624,000 feet, and ranked third among 

 the states. Those above it were Wisconsin and Michigan. It is not 

 known what part of the country's outi)ut of elm lumber is white elm 

 and what belongs to other species, but there is no question that much 

 more than half is cut from the former. It is most abundant aud most 

 widely distributed of all. Its range extends from Newfoundland to 

 Saskatchewan in Canada, and thence southward to Florida and Texas. 

 It is found in every state east of the Kocky Mountains. The wood has 

 little figure, and is of monotonous color, but is susceptible of finish 

 which adds much to its appearance. It is tough, moderately strong, 

 and when cut thin it may be bent with ease. An example of this is 

 seen in the coiled elm hoops which fill an important place in the 

 cooperage industry. The wood splits with difKculty and that quality- 

 places white elm along with cork elm in fa\or as hub stock in wagon 

 factories. 



More than half the white elm reported in Indiana was consumed 

 in box factories. It possesses jiroperties which give it special value as 

 crate stock, one of which is the facility with which it maj' be bent to 

 make crates of circular or oval form. The accompanyiug table shows 

 the use of white elm in fifteen industries in the state, and the price 

 paid for it by each. 



T.VBLE 19— CONSU.MPTIO.V OF WHJTI'; KL.M 



Quantity used 



annually. ]>er 



Feet b. m. ';i 1.000 ft. 

 In<lustry. 



Boxes and crates.. 5,04.3,000 .34.87 .$10.03 



Vehicles and ve- 

 hicle parts 1.07.">.000 11.60 27.20 



Musical instru- 

 ments 813,000 8.80 31.73 



Chairs and eh.ilr 



stock 039.080 7.17 22.60 



Refrigerators a n d 



kitchen cabinets 430.400 4.73 24.91 



Furniture 345,300 3.70 20.S9 



Agricultural im- 

 plements 200,000 2.17 



Laundry appli- 

 ances 130,000 1.03 



Planing mill pdcts. 129.000 1.40 



Fixtures 100.000 1.09 



Dowels 2.3.000 .27 



Sash, doors, blinds 

 and general mill- 

 work 20,000 .22 



VN'oodenware and 



novelties 10,000 .11 



Car construction . . 8,000 .00 



Gates and fencing 5,000 .05 



Miscellaneous .... 172,000 1.87 



Av. cost Total cost 

 I'.o.b. 

 factory. 



.5 S0.S81 



29,240 



25,875 



14,938 



10,870 

 7,217 



5,200 



4,000 



2,590 



2,000 



740 



000 



l.SO 



270 



130 



2,395 



Grown 



In Ind. 



Feet b. m. 



2.900,000 



5.30.000 



300.000 



345,022 



412.000 

 201,500 



20.00 



20.07 

 20.08 

 20.00 

 29.00 



30.00 



18.00 

 33.73 

 30.00 

 1.5.09 



Grown 

 ou: of Ind. 

 Feet b. m. 



2,085,000 



5-25.000 



425,000 



313,464 



24,400 

 144,000 



200,000 



130.000 



129.000 



100.000 



3.000 



20.000 



10.000 

 s.ono 



3.000 

 122.000 



Total 



9.194.086 100.00 $20.37 $187,346 5,408,121 



USES OF WHITE EL5I 



.\pple boxes 



.Vutomobile bodies 



-Vutomobile body frame work 



-Vutomobile body seat frames 



.Vutomobile bows 



-Vutomobile construction 



.Vutomobile running boards 



-Vutomobile seat frames 



Baskets 



Basket handles 



Bent chairs 



Bent hammock spreaders 



Boxes 



Box sbooks 



Brush backs 



Brush blocks 



Buggy bows 



Buggy cushion frames 



Buggy hubs 



t'autles, saddletree ' 



Chairs 



Chair seats 



Costumers 



Crating 



Crating, automoliile 



Crating; buggy 



Crating, carriage 



Crating, wagon 



Cupboards 



Davenport frames 



Dowels 



Egg cases 



Egg crates 



Electric car repairs 



Frame work, antomobii 



Hav racks 



Hubs 



Kitchen cabinets 



Kitchen cabinet partitions 



Kitchen cabinet shelves 



Librar.y tables 



Office furniture 



Organs 



Paper roll plugs 



Pews, backs 



Pews, ends 



Piano backs 



Posts, kitchen cabinet 



Pulleys, packing strips 



Pump buckets 



Refrigerators 



Rods, chair 



Rods, go-cart 



Sheathing 



Silo rims 



Tables 



Trunk slats 



Wagon bows 



Wagon cleats 



Wagon repairing 



Washing machines 



Washing machine dashers 



50,000 

 3,786,864 



liodii's 



Hemlock 



Hemlock occurs in the central part of the state, but it is scarce 



aud sawmills do not report cutting hemlock lumber every year. Most 



of the supply probably comes from Michigan, Wisconsin and West 



Virginia and perhaps some from Pennsylvania. The wood is coarse 



