114 Wood-Using Industries of New York 
and on pieces of wood that will turn out toys designed to util- 
ize every inch of the wood. Toy blocks exemplify the most 
perfect utilization attained in toys, especially where a thin 
board is made into puzzles, and there is no loss of wood except 
the kerf loss of a very thin saw. Wood users could hope for 
no closer utilization than toys. 
Table 26 shows the consumption of nearly 7,000,000 feet, 
approximately one-third of which is basswood. The principal 
product is children’s wagons and carts, in which basswood 
forms largely the bottoms, while sugar maple contributes the 
seats and sides. In this branch almost all of the woods take 
part, red and white oak going into axles, spokes and rims, 
ash into spokes and frames, and chestnut into sled tops. Domi- 
noes and checkers consume great quantities of sugar maple and 
basswood, one firm using basswood only for dominoes. Toy 
blocks are chiefly made of basswood and small amount of yellow 
poplar. Much of the birch used is paper birch and goes with 
basswood into toys and games. ‘T’oy snow shovels, and garden 
tools, in imitation of the man’s working implements, utilize 
mainly white ash, just as do the large hoe and fork-handle 
plants. A small amount of yellow poplar is also used in these 
manufactures. 
TABLE 26 
Toys 
Quantity Usep 
ANNUALLY Avera’ Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
KiInp oF Woop ee 000 S Onde New York. | New York. 
p eset factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Percent 
Totalj. teeird ots 6,864,000 | 100.00 | $45 79 $314,313 3,195,000 3,669,000 
Basswood.......... 2,315,000 33.72 | $51 71 $119,699 900 ,000 1,415,000 
Sheesh 100.000 21.86 51 00 ; 600 ,000 100 , 000 
Hard maple........ 1,253,000 18.26 40 88 51,223 1,000,000 253,000 
FRiedigwmis sfec eects crac 650 , 00! 9.47 33 46 21, 4EOR 2 Stele os 650,000 
Beech tesci scas eae 353,000 S212 37 57 13,262 350,000 3,000 
@hestnuts. xs. eee 260 ,000 3.79 40 77 10,600 100,000 160,000 
Yellow poplar....... 250,000 3.65 35 00 COO ihc wate ate 250,000 
Archisete aye ciao eae 138,000 2.01 40 00 5,520 135,000 3,000 
Redioalks Ae 100,000 1.46 50 00 5,000 1003000") 452-neeeeee 
Wihitewak: .cassee- 40,000 .59 45 00 1,800 10,000 30,000 
White pine......... 5,000 .07 42 00 PAO Hv reve ve stoners 5,000 
