WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



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boxes, woodwork of all kinds, school and church furniture, trunks, handles, 

 woodenware, refrigerators, racks, shelves, sporting goods, etc. For this reason 

 it is often very difficult to assign to this industry, and to many others which 

 are conducted simultaneously with it, the exact quantity of material each one 

 consumes. It may often happen that material is credited as having been used 

 by the sash and door industry when it was really used for the manufacture of 

 articles such as refrigerators, pumps, tanks, silos, toys, sporting goods, handles, 

 tools or woodenware. 



Photo 7389. J. A. DOUCET. 

 Butter tubs and boxes made of spruce and balsam fir, at the factory of the Disraeli Box Co., Disraeli, Que. 



Sash and door manufacturers use twenty-four kinds of wood out of a total 

 reported of thirty-two, no other industry using so many. Spruce, the leading 

 wood material of the province, ranks first, forming 51-5 per cent of the total. 

 Most of the native woods occupy a prominent place. Softwood material 

 predominates, forming 83-3 per cent. 



Spruce is generally used for commoner building purposes, such as flooring, 

 wainscottlng, moulding, and framing. A fairly large quantity of a superior 

 quality of spruce is now used for sash and door work, and the quantity is increas- 

 ing in proportion to the increasing scarcity and high price of first-class pine 

 material. 



Pine is used for about the same purposes as spruce but for a superior class 

 of work. The largest quantity of pine goes into sash and door work. White 

 pine cannot be excelled for this purpose, being light, very easy to work, fairly 

 durable, and tough. Sash and door manufacturers feel its increasing scarcity 

 and are forced to recognize the lower grade of the material found on the market. 



Hemlock and balsam fir replace spruce in rougher construction for flooring, 

 wainscotting and ceiling, and even for moulding, but they are not used for sash 

 and door work. 



