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delicate piano parts. Other industries could profitably intro- 
duce specialized machinery such as this on account of the great 
saving in labor effected and the interchangeability of the 
finished parts which constitute the product. 
Among the more striking features of Table 8 are the enor- 
mous amounts of raw material consumed, the variety of woods 
used, and the relatively large proportion of home-grown woods 
used. Next to planing-mill products musical instruments con- 
sume more material from our own woodlots and forests than 
any other industry in the list. The annual use in 1919 was 
TABLE § 
Musica INSTRUMENTS 
Quantity Usep ' 
I 
ANNUALLY Rverege Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
Kinp or Woop = |——_______—_ 7.000 f. 0. b. New York. | New York. 
pe Bet factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Percent 
1) eee 53,569,000 | 100.00 | $89 03 | $4,769,358 | 16,533,000 37 ,036 ,000 
Hard maple........ 11,228,000 20.96 | $66 31 $744,529 5,736,000 5,492 ,000 
ESDEUCEC Seeds cle bie a 8,767 ,000 16.37 88 23 773,512 5,980,000 2,787,000 
Yellow poplar....... 8,213,000 15.34 89 19 732,517 37 ,000 8,176,000 
Whestmitiss.cctc. a 053 ,000 13.13 56 79 400 , 540 238 ,000 6,815,000 
Tes (fa hia re 5,256 ,O00 9.82 OF 11 SIO ALO) Ie sorta eects 5,256,000 
Mahogany..........] 4,172,000 7.78 | 208 73 S705822) |i) ty. ee 4,172,000 
Ley ivi je Sees 3,891,000 7.26 62 34 242 ,565 2,958, 000 933 ,000 
iWihitte pine .:.5.'. >... 1,443,000 2.69 84 69 122,178 786 ,000 657 ,000 
Wihiteroake 54. 2%... 1,181,000 2.22 | 154 40 1825346). .ae4e aac 1,181,000 
Laer Te ae Ree eae 662 ,000 1.24 64 68 42,818 545 ,000 117,000 
SBD Se eiippo ht oeeee 484 ,000 .90 69 41 33,594 100 ,000 384 ,000 
Basswood...... Scat 353 ,000 .66 85 74 30 , 266 103 ,000 250,000 
Sitka cae He 200 ,000 38 92 50 1S 5500). th serena 200 ,000 
Ash... Spratt ss 183 ,000 .35 83 18 15,222 12,000 171,000 
Redwood. eee iefnvete 89 ,000 sa ly( 49 12 A SIZ iW cies sets cieiete 89,000 
Black walnut....... 78,000 .15 | 134 09 10,459 1,000 77,000 
Soft maple.... 7 70,000 “2183 50 71 3,549 37 ,000 33,000 
Loblolly pine 65,000 212 46 46 30208 | «3-cen eee 65,000 
Cherry (black)...... 56 ,000 .11 | 140 00 1840 tA eee 56 ,000 
Wowelas Gr... ces 43,000 .08 81 84 S7DIGM ya atom ace 43,000 
Western red cedar... 30,000 .06 | 110 00 UR) error s.oc. 30,000 
Witch hazel........ 23,000 .04 66 52 ais Fe ster’ 23,000 
GOSeWOOd.........'s 10 ,000 .02 | 900 00 10 ,000 
Bupar pmnels..). . sa. 8,000 .01 | 200 00 8,000 
Holly (American)... 7,000 .01 | 150 00 T3QD0F ln e5 eerers ee 7,000 
Nh ee eee 3,000 L 65 00 nL? ial | pee eelrse 3 3,000 
PeCIOAK! f:. soo 2 2). 1,000 * | 105 00 LOB asec tea te 1,000 
* Less than one-hundredth of one per cent. 
