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Jogging camps, saw, shingle and planing mills, the manufacture of 

 lath, cooperage stock, sash, doors and blinds, interior finish, other 

 millwork and wooden packing boxes, employs the largest number 

 of wage earners of any industry in the United States. The 

 largest number employed (in November ) was 739,160, the 

 smallest number in January was 87.8 per cent, of the largest, 

 namely 649,239. 



This shows an unusually even labor employment, while in 

 foundry and machine work, the next largest employers, the lowest 

 employment is only 80.7 per cent, of the maximum mark. 



The lumber industry shows a considerable increase in all 

 respects from 1904 to 1909, namely 62 per cent, in number of 

 establishments, 60 per cent, in capital, 41 per cent, in cost of 

 materials, 32 per cent, in wages and salaries, 21 per cent, in mis- 

 cellaneous expenses, and 31 per cent, in value of products (to 

 $648,000,000). 



According to a report of the Census Bureau the wood distilling 

 industry has been on the increase in 1909 and 1910, 147 plants 

 being in operation in the latter years as against 131 in the years 

 1907 and 1908. The 117 establishments distilling hardwoods 

 consumed 1,257,997 cords; Michigan, Pennsylvania and New 

 York representing 83.2 per cent, of the total, 60 per cent, of the 

 wood being bodywood, and only 10 per cent, mill waste. The 

 30 establishments distilling soft woods, mainly in the Southern 

 States, consumed 192,442 cords or 13.3 per cent, of the total. 

 The total consumption was, therefore, 1,450,439 cords as against 

 977,844 in 1908. 



Germany is a great basket-willow producing country. Who 

 has not heard of the arrival in New York and Philadelphia of 

 entire shiploads of basket ware and willow rods for the basket 

 makers' use? The bulk of this material comes from Germany. 

 Go where you will in Germany and you can find hardly a village 

 which has not its basket makers who furnish the local require- 

 ments with baskets, hampers, crates, etc., all made from willow 

 rods grown in Germany. The greatest difficulty of these basket 

 makers seems to be to buy the rods from which to make their 

 ware, for there is a scarcity of rods for the local markets. 



