42 WOOD-USING EHI OF SOUTH CAROL: 



Obviously it is not economy to expend two dollars in labor to 

 an article worth less than two dollars. The manufacturer 

 who keeps abreast of the times watches for opportunities for 

 closer utilization, and takes prompt advantage of such opportuni- 

 ties as they come. 



Large slabs and serviceable scraps go to the burners in South 

 Carolina factories less frequently now than formerly. Such 

 material is made into laths, shingles, boxes, molding, and other 

 salable articles. Sawdust is generally used for fuel, though 

 about rural sawmills and planing mills the old-time heaps of 

 sawdust are still common. 



The only commercial plant in the United States manufacturing 

 ethyl alcohol from sawdust is located in South Carolina. The 

 success of the enterprise is being watched with great interest, 

 for important conservation problems are believed to be in process 

 of solution. 



In the manufacturing of handles and vehicles there takes place 

 some of the closest utilization of material reaching the factory; 

 but frequently great waste is committed in cutting and in 

 pin.q- the stock. The making of shuttles and shuttle blocks is 

 still attended with much waste, but ways are 'being found for 

 using the small cuttings for other things, notably for knife han- 

 dles and for loom speeders in textile mills. Some are made into 

 cross-cut saw handles. The Forest Service recently carried <>nt 

 an investigation for the purpose of finding uses for the 

 incident to the manufacture of shuttles. 



