80 RURAL MICHIGAN 



is still the case. Xinety-nine kinds of wood were 

 used by Michigan manufactures in 1910, of which 

 sugar maple, white pine and hemlock supplied more 

 than half the total consumption. Sugar maple com- 

 prised a quarter of this aggregate.^ 



The presence of an extraordinarily rich and varied 

 forest growth brought to Michigan many industries 

 using wood in their productive processes. Almost 

 every little city has had its factory for making some 

 implements or articles employing wood in its con- 

 struction. Thus tlircsliing-machines and other farm 

 implements were manufactured at Birmingham as 

 early as 1854. Corn-planters were made at Grand 

 Haven, fanning mills at Plymouth and near St. 

 Johns, pumps at several places, wagons and carriages 

 at Flint, furniture at Grand Eapids, Owosso and 

 elsewhere, caskets at Owosso, plows at Albion, 

 threshing-machines at Battle Creek and Port Huron, 

 portable houses at Bay City and St. Johns, harrows 

 at Detroit, forks and hoes at Jackson, baskets at 

 Lowell. The Forest Service report of 1913 lists 

 thirty firms manufacturing agricultural implements 

 in ]\Iichigan, twenty-six firms making boats and 

 ships, two hundred and fourteen manufacturers of 

 boxes and crates, twelve firms making caskets, 

 twenty-two chair manufacturers, three manufac- 

 turers of excelsior, ninety-nine furniture factories, 

 thirty-one handle factories, four manufacturers of 

 matches and tooth-picks and twelve of musical in- 



' Wood-using Industries of Michigan, Washington, 1912. 



