80 Discussion of Industries 
TABLE 12 
CHAIRS 
Quantity UsEep 
ANNUALLY Aver mg Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
KiInp OF Woop 000 f. 0. b New York. New York. 
var a factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Per cent Ce 
——— |  — | | | 
dl a 8 Ee SRS eI 22,318,000 | 100.00 | $58 35 | $1,302,410 | 13,073,000 9,245,000 
Birches owe! oats s,s 4,938,000 22.13 | $48 05 $237 ,271 2,349,000 2,589,000 
Hard maple........| 4,270,000 19.13 45 49 194,192 4,055,000 215,000 
IBeegne ops. one 3,270,000 14.65 34 71 113,502 3,210,000) | 2-4 eta 
Whhiteioak:4).2 5.25: 3,212,000 14.38 93 10 299 ,037 250,000 2,962,000 
LO iTae eee ees cae 1,686,000 7.55 39 25 66,175 930 ,000 756 ,000 
Basswood.......... 1,128,000 5.06 39 82 44,917 1,086,000 42,000 
Red gamit sae: Aee5 1,070,000 4.80 79 23 SE S016) Dales cats clare 1,070,000 
Mahogany. 5 .2c- «=. 795,000 3.56 | 191 32 152-0900) be.o ss cee 795 ,000 
Cherry (black)...... 783 ,000 8.51 39 79 31,156 760,000 23,000 
JACI OSES SER eee 610,000 AAT (3 48 68 29,695 348 ,000 262,000 
IREQ OBA eh. 6s.05.0 276 ,000 1.24 77 63 PASE: Lin PercnoiahS Oe 276,000 
Black walnut....... 185,000 -83 | 129 65 23,985 || 24 Sete 185,000 
Buckeye. as: f. 5... ss 38,000 Aily/ 45 00 A OPH at Roos seis 38,000 
Sprices.¢45..8ial es 30,000 .14 | 40 00 T5200)" be, cota 30,000 
Chestnut. 2224... 2. 27,000 a, 47 00 1,269 25,000 2,000 
Motor VEHICLES 
The phenomenal increase in the use of motor-driven vehicles 
has so outstripped the manufacture of horse-drawn vehicles 
that the wood consumption of each line of industry is tabulated 
separately for the first time in this study. Trade statistics 
show that in New York the ratio of motor vehicles to popula- 
ion is now 1 ‘o 19.12, while in the United States the ratio is 
1 to 14.14. Canada comes next in order with a ratio of 
1 to 21. 
In 1919 the manufacturers of automobiles, trucks, auto 
_ bodies, truck bodies and wheels, together with the repairers of 
motor-driven vehicles report the consumption of 20,813,000 
feet of wood. The high grades necessary for this exacting 
service are indicated by the very high average price of $101.08 
per thousand paid for the raw material. 
White ash with a consumption of over 7,000,000 feet or 35 
per cent of the total is the wood in greatest demand. Northern 
grown ash has qualities of toughness and resiliency which 
