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FORESTRY BRANCH BULLETIN No. 63 



garment-hangers, cemetery-boards, tobacco-cutters' tables, clothes-pins, dowels 

 and skewers, tops, spools, plugs, and bungs, fancy cases, trays, wash-tubs, 

 blocks, slats, window-blinds, whips, canes, umbrellas, and numerous other 

 articles. 



This group of industries comes seventh in the list. Its total wood consump- 

 tion reported is 12,741,000 feet board measure, or 1-8 per cent of the total. 

 Three species of wood only are not native to the province. Native Quebec 



Photo 10009. R. G. LEWIS. 



Tent-pegs made from waste pieces from a vehicle factory. It requires only a rough piece of wood 16 by 

 1* by If in. to make a peg. 



woods are largely represented but the manufacturers of miscellaneous articles 

 purchased 59 6 per cent of their raw material outside of the province. Ontario 

 furnished 53 3 per cent. Most of the pine used was purchased in Ontario. 



The uses made of the different woods would take long to describe in full, 

 owing to the long list of articles manufactured, but the most important ones 

 may be mentioned. For rifle-stocks only black walnut is used. For this purpose 

 the material was all imported from the United States. For spinning-wheels 

 use was made of birch, white birch mostly, also basswood, pine, maple, 

 and some spruce. 



Except in a few instances the manufacture of spinning-wheels is conducted 

 by numerous small shops, scattered all over the province, and information on 

 the industry is not quite complete. Nowadays the small shops can no longer 

 compete with the larger manufacturers and their business is rapidly falling off. 

 Matches are made exclusively of pine; washboards are made of basswood, birch, 



