40 Discussion of Industries 
waste about the larger plants. New industries spring up and 
sometimes they utilize or depend upon the waste of the older 
industries for their raw material. Small, clear blocks of 
maple, walnut, birch, mahogany, and other waste woods that 
are sometimes used for fuel in a city planing mill might be 
profitably turned into brush and hand-mirror backs at an ad- 
joining establishment. The discussions of the various indus- 
tries aim to point out the form and source of the raw material 
needed by the various industries, the uses of the various species, 
the qualities that recommend them for such uses, the cost of the 
different woods delivered at the factory, the relative demand 
made upon our woodlots by the various industries, the form 
of the waste, and to make some suggestions relative to the 
practical utilization of the waste. 
Table 2 shows the wide range of manufacturing going on 
throughout the State and the enormous amount of raw material 
needed annually. No other State has so much capital employed 
or so many men engaged in the wood-using industries. In 
nearly all of these industries New York is conspicuous nation- 
ally, while in many of them she occupies first position in the 
matter of raw material consumed and the value of the finished 
products. While her planing-mill output is exceeded by the 
output of the more heavily timbered States of the South and 
West, no other State compares with New York in total con- 
sumption of wood for certain classes of finished articles. At 
the time when the previous edition of this bulletin was pub- 
lished, numerous other States had recently been similarly 
canvassed. It was therefore possible to draw comparisons 
between the States which can not be made at the present time. 
Of the individual industries, however, it is believed that New 
York still retains leadership in the following: packing boxes, 
sash, door, and blinds, ship and boat building, musical instru- 
ments, boot and shoe findings, matches, and probably numer- 
ous others. 
The average price of $60.78 paid for the raw material is 
almost exactly twice what it was in 1912. The reports of the 
