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Wood-using Industries of the Maritime Provinces. By R. G. 

 Lewis, assisted by W. G. H. Boyce. Bulletin 44, Forestry Branch. 

 Ottawa, Canada. 1914. Pp. 100. 



This bulletin is the second of a series dealing with Canadian 

 wood-using industries, and embodies data gathered from over 

 600 manufacturers using wood as raw material, in the provinces 

 of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. 



The industries concerned used over 200 million feet of raw 

 material with an average value of $18 per thousand board feet. 

 In this amount 28 tree species groups were comprised, 16 of them 

 native. The bulk of the material used (88%) is of local origin, 

 being grown in about equal amounts in Nova Scotia and New 

 Brunswick, the province of Prince Edward Island supplying only 

 the small quantity of 1 .3 million feet. The raw material purchased 

 outside the maritime provinces comes largely from the United 

 States, and this is mostly hard pine used in car manufacture. 



General building construction reqmres over 60 million feet of 

 raw material or nearly one-third of the total amount used. The 

 maniifacture of wood-pulp uses 21%, car construction 18, cooper- 

 age 11, boxes and crating 8, flooring 3, boat building 2, and 

 furniture manufacture 2%, of the total raw product required by 

 the wood-using industries. 



Spruce is, of course, the most commonly used wood, this making 

 up 57% of the raw material of the manufacturers. The other 

 woods used are: White pine 11.8%, hard pine 8.8, birch 6.4, 

 Balsam fir 5, hemlock 3, oak 1.9, maple 1.8, beech 1%, and small 

 quantities of various species. 



The average values of these woods per thousand board feet were : 

 spruce $13.69, White pine $23.58, hard pine $31.27, birch $17.86, 

 Balsam fir $11.79, hemlock $12.39, oak $41.17, maple $17.60, and 

 beech $18.13. 



The uses to which the various woods are put are given in a set of 

 detailed tables. Thus, 33% of the spruce goes into wood-pulps 

 32% in building construction, and 14% is used in cooperage 

 plants. Similar percentages for some of the other leading species, 

 are as follows: White pine — building construction 60%, cars 16%, 

 boxes 8%; birch — ^flooring 27, furniture 15, cars 13, building con- 

 struction 13; Balsam fir — pulp 43, boxes 24, cooperage 17; hem- 

 lock — building construction 74, boxes 15, pulp 8; oak — cars 64,. 



