quantity alone is not in all cases a criterion of value of an 



<.dustry to the community in which it is situated, nor to the 

 untry as a whole. 



More than one -ha If of the total consumption consists 

 cf planing-mill products, the largest items of which are flooring, 

 siding, ceiling, and finishing. The next industry, in point of 

 quantity of wood used, is the manufacture of "bones and crates. 

 Nearly four tines as much wood is demanded by makers of boxes and 

 crates as by the builders of steam and electric cars, which come 

 next, and five-fold the amount that goes into furniture, v/hich in 



n leads vehicle manufacture. Vehicles demand surprisingly 

 ge supplies of wood, and much of it must be of a high class in 

 order to meet requirements fnr frames, gears, and bodies. 



Chairs, listed separately from furniture, come after 

 novelties and supplies for dairymen, poultry keepers, and apiarists, 

 and just before handles, and iimsical instruments. About midway 

 wn the list come pumps and wo^d pipes. Among the products im- 

 ^ortant enough to list separately arc canes and umbrella sticks, 

 brooms, firearms, artificial limbs, and tobacco pipes. 



The apportionment of wood among the various industries, 



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grades from planing-mill products, v/hich take most, down to aero- 

 planes and dry kilns, at the bottom of the list. 



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