Woodenware and Novelties 91 
of both classes of material, consuming similar stock and report- 
ing their consumption of raw material together, that it is not 
an easy matter to compile the data separately. The best way 
to outline the scope of this classification is to enumerate 
many of the articles included in the total of 13,000,000 feet 
reported in Table 17. The principal wood-consuming products 
are: Bread boards, buckets, butter dishes, butter moulds, cloth 
boards, coat hangers, clubs for policemen, cutting boards, 
scoops, doilies, ladles, door’ knobs, drain boards, gavels, reels, 
rolling pins, snow shovels, tent stakes, tent toggles, small tubs, 
and sugar tubs and boxes. Thus the industry includes all kinds 
of serving utensils and other culinary articles of the smaller 
size, together with semi-useful and more ornamental articles 
such as wooden candle sticks, paper weights, carvings, jewel 
boxes, etc. Much of the material going into these articles, 
especially such as dishes, is made of rotary-cut veneer, pro- 
duced directly from the log, and is very cheap since the finished 
articles are intended to be used only once and then thrown 
away. Among such articles are dishes used by grocerymen for 
the handling of butter and lard. The hardwoods that are 
cheap, easily veneered, free from odor and stain, are in general 
demand, the principal contributing species being basswood, 
beech, and sugar maple. In some novelty lines the softwoods 
are very important, most of the southern yellow pine and white 
pine reported going into such articles as small flag poles. The 
hardwoods, particularly ash and maple, are turned into rustic 
novelties. The major portion of the consumption of birch, 
sassafras, and black walnut goes for the production of rustic 
and other novelties. Ladders are manufactured by many firms, 
and the principal contributing species are ash, maple, and oak. 
Most of the ash and maple is used for ladder rungs. The 
foreign woods are used for carvings of the more ornamental 
kind and for gavels, police clubs, ete. New York manufac- 
turers expend annually over $250,000 for the raw material 
going into these small wares and most of this money goes into 
the purses of the woodlot owners of the State. 
