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manufacturers has been presented, indicating a consumption 
of nearly 21 million feet in 1919. The total consumption 
for both horse-drawn and motor-driven vehicles is therefore 
slightly less than in 1912, and the latter industry has expanded 
at the expense of the former. 
The general wagon industry includes all business and pleas- 
ure vehicles from the light delivery wagon of the bakery to the 
heavy trucks employed in hauling stone and timber, dump 
carts, sleighs, and trailers. 
Vehicles drawn by horses consume the major portion of the 
raw material, but warehouse trucks, push carts, sleds, wheel- 
barrows, and small wagons are included in the industry. 
Only a few firms in New York still actually make heavy 
wagons, carts, or sleighs from lumber. There is also at least 
one large plant which specializes on the manufacture of wooden 
wheels. Farm wagons and buggies are made by centralized 
plants in the middle west, and shipped complete. There are, 
however, shops which carry on an extensive business in 
assembling vehicles from finished and unfinished parts 
imported from other States. 
Much of the heavy turned stock comes from the central 
southern States in a partly finished condition to be used for 
spokes, rims, shafts and tongues. In Arkansas and other central 
southern States many factories specialize in vehicle stock. 
A large part of the industry now consists of local repair 
shops. Many of these call themselves wagon factories, but 
speaking accurately they never build a wagon, although some 
of them assemble completed parts, much as some piano fac- 
tories do, and finish them. 
Such shops are numerous in. the large cities, and some of 
them also build delivery bodies for the transformation of old 
motor cars into trucks. It is therefore somewhat difficult to 
separate accurately the wood used for wagon repairs and for 
motor repairs. 
As a general rule high-grade material is demanded. Clear 
stock of the best species of hard wood is in great demand, and 
increasingly difficult to get. It is noticeable that New York 
