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A large number of factories are engaged in this industry. Among the num- 

 ber some factories are engaged in a special line, such as cigar boxes, butter 

 boxes, tobacco boxes, etc. Some manufacture most of the different kinds of 

 boxes, while others make some of these containers as side lines along with another 

 class of commodity. 



Fourteen species of wood are used, spruce as usual taking the lead, forming 

 72-7 per cent of the total. Wood-pulp is the only industry which has reported 

 the consumption of a larger quantity of this species. Coniferous wood material 

 forms 88-3 per cent of the total consumption. Basswood is the main hard- 

 wood employed, forming 6 per cent. 



Photo 9148. R. G. LEWIS. 



Canadian matches are made almost entirely from white pine. The above engraving shows the different 

 stages of the manufacture of matches. The larger block of wood appears in the first stage of preparation; 

 the one below is ready to enter into the machines from which it emerges in the finished form. 



The average price paid was $21.39 per thousand feet board measure. In 

 Ontario the same class of manufacturers paid $18.53 in 1912, and in the Mari- 

 time Provinces $12.30 in 1913. The price of lumber had risen considerably 

 from 1912 to 1915. 



In many instances spruce, pine, and balsam fir are used indifferently in 

 most of the commodities named above, but in a few instances as for butter 

 boxes or other articles intended to contain foodstuffs, spruce and balsam fir 

 are preferred to pine, on account of their odourless and tasteless qualities. 



Basswood and poplar are mostly used for tobacco boxes and also for trunks, 

 with a good deal of elm and some birch. All the Spanish cedar and most of 

 the butternut is used for cigar boxes. A fairly large proportion of birch and 

 elm is cut into sheets of veneer of different sizes for exportation to England. 



