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dustries which use wood as a raw material. More than 

 one-half of the total lumber that is manufactured con- 

 sists in planing mill products, the largest items of which 

 are flooring, siding, ceiling, and finishing. The next 

 most important industry in which wood is used is in 

 the manufacture of boxes and crates. It is estimated 

 that nearly four times as much is demanded in the 

 manufacture of boxes and crates as is used by the build- 

 ers of steam and electric cars, and five times as much as 

 that which is used for furniture. Vehicles demand 

 large supplies of wood, and this must be of a high class 

 in order to meet the requirements for frames, gears and 

 bodies. 



Chairs, listed separately from furniture, come after 

 novelties and supplies for dairymen, poultry keepers, 

 and apiarists, and require just a little more wood than 

 handles and musical instruments. A large amount of 

 wood is used in the manufacture of pumps and wood 

 pipes. Canes, umbrella handles, brooms, firearms, arti- 

 ficial limbs, and tobacco pipes, use large quantities of 

 wood. 



Taken all in all, Uncle Sam's lumber industry is a 

 big item. If we add to the above the immense quanti- 

 ties used for firewood and railroad ties, we then begin 

 to have an adequate idea of the vast extent of this in- 

 dustry. 



NUMBER AND VALUE OF FAEM ANIMALS. 



The latest computation of the number of milch cows 

 and their value on the farms of the United States on 

 February 1, 1914, as given by the estimates of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, are as follows : 



The estimates indicate that the number of milch cows on 

 farms in the United States is now 20,737,000, an increase of 



