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White pine overshadows all other species and supplies 93 
per cent of the raw material, the major portion of it going 
into steam pipe casing, water pipes, pump tubing, siding, curb- 
ing and covering. Well buckets are made of white oak, ash, 
and beech; water pipes of white pine and maple. 
Launpry APPLIANCEs. 
The figures combined in Table 30 include the reports of 
establishments using wood for the manufacture of clothes 
hampers, clothes pins, clothes racks, clothes wringers, curtain 
stretchers, ironing boards, laundry mangles, sleeveboards, 
washboards, washtubs, washing machines, frames of washing 
machines, and miscellaneous equipment for the general laundry 
business, such as spiral tables, benches, tanks, rollers for 
handles, ete. 
The tub and tank parts of the industry consume the greater 
amount of wood and this accounts for the large amount of bald 
cypress reported, its contribution being 71 per cent of the 
quantity used, nearly all of which went into tanks and tubs. 
This species has the commendable quality above all others of 
resisting decay in contact with water. 
The next most important item is that of washboards, made 
of beech and sugar maple. The advent of the electric washer 
has greatly reduced the production of hand-washing equip- 
ment, including old-style tubs and corrugated boards. Clothes 
pins are made largely of hard maple and beech. Reels for 
machinery consume a small amount of hard maple. Special 
kinds of tables and boards needed for laundry offices and work- 
rooms consume white pine and yellow poplar. For many uses 
sugar maple takes precedence over all other woods, including 
such articles as wheel repairs and all kinds of handles used in 
connection with the laundry business. It is very important for 
mangle rollers. General machine construction for laundries 
consumes cypress, sugar maple, poplar, and white oak. 
New York stands well to the fore in this industry, but it is 
regrettable to note that the manufacturers imported all of the 
material used, although cypress is the only species not grown 
in the State. 
