Firearms 145 
Establishments making sporting firearms receive their wood 
as plank or in rough-sawn blank stocks approximately 2 inches 
thick, 6inches wide and 18 inches long. When the stock is 
bought in blank form, it is paid for on a piece basis and not 
according to the thousand board feet. Military stocks, which 
include the fore-end, are about 3 feet 10 inches long and require 
much larger stock in order to secure satisfactory blanks. Ji 
would seem feasible to construct all rifles with separate butt- 
stock and fore-end, since one of the British military rifles was 
built on this plan; yet the general preference of ordnance 
experts is apparently for the long one-piece stock. The change 
to the use of short stocks would permit the utilization of a large 
amount of material which otherwise could not meet the 
specifications. 
The number of reporting firms is greater than in 1912, 
but the quantity of wood reported is 30 per cent smaller. The 
price of $147.78 is an increase roughly proportional to that 
noted in the other industries. 
TABLE 44 
FIREARMS 
Quantity Usrep 
ANNUALLY menace Total cost Grown in |Grown out of 
Kinp or Woop ee 1000 1s (5 195 New York. New York. 
Pp feet factory (Feet b. m.) | (Feet b. m.) 
Feet b. m. | Percent ; 
i Noy Wt A caiet Aia Re 258,000 | 100.00 |$147 78 $3811) 3800/2 258,000 
Black walnut....... 256,000 99.22 |$145 31 S3te 2104 vate eee 256, 000 
Circassian walnut. . . 2,000 .78 | 460 00 920)"| Soros era 2,000 
WHIPs AND UMBRELLA STICKS 
A large proportion of the wood listed in the table is used 
in making umbrella handles and a small amount goes into 
whip butts. In 1912 2,237,000 board feet of material were 
used for these purposes. The present figures show a decided 
decrease, although one more firm is listed than in 1912. Beech 
furnished over 90 per cent of the wood material in the former 
