108 Discussion of Industries 
DatryMEn’s, PouLTERERS’ AND APIARISTS’ SUPPLIES 
Table 24 includes beehives, bee supplies, butter ladles, butter 
moulds, butter tubs and pails, cattle stanchions, dairy supplies, 
cheese boxes, chicken coops, cheese vats, milk cases, egg car- 
riers, and incubators. The production of cheese boxes con- 
sumes almost every species enumerated in the table. The con- 
sumption of home-grown wood is nearly two-thirds of the 
7,556,000 feet reported and nearly all of the species are found 
in the State, the exceptions being western white pine and 
cypress. These imported woods are especially useful for cer- 
tain articles; cypress, for instance, being particularly suited for 
incubators. 
For egg carriers, used in transporting eggs by parcel post, 
yellow poplar is the favored material. Chestnut, formerly the 
leading wood in quantity, although restricted to use in incu- 
bators made by a few firms, seems to have fallen away in 
popularity. 
For cheese boxes almost any wood can be used, either for 
headings, hoops, or staves, but the other products require wood 
of certain species. Beehives use white pine very generally for 
outer boxes, while basswood is preferred for honey boxes. 
Butter boxes are generally made of either spruce, yellow birch, 
hard maple or oak; and butter tubs are largely made of bass- 
wood, ash, white oak, red oak, spruce and hemlock. Cypress 
is demanded for tanks, tubs, well buckets, and other articles 
coming in contact with water. Elm is one of the more import- 
ant woods for this class of products, used in the form of hoops 
and sides for cheese boxes, with a small amount for veneer for 
cheese-box siding. For cattle stanchions strong woods such as 
maple, beech, ash, and oak have been found best adapted. 
The average cost of the raw material is $37.79, which is very 
low for the year 1919 and is accounted for by the fact that the 
industry consumes such material in the form of logs, the manu- 
facturing consisting principally of simple reduction of billets 
and bolts into staves and heading suitable for local industries. 
