INTRODUCTION 



The Bureau of the Census, in cooperation with the United States 

 Forest Service, compiles and publishes statistics annually showing 

 the output of sawmills by States and for the whole country. The cut 

 in Maryland in 1908 was 168,534,000 feet, board measure, reported 

 by 384 sawmills. This was one-half of 1 per cent of the total cut in 

 the United States for that year, and was a falling off of more than 

 21 per cent from Maryland's lumber cut for 1907. The decline was 

 general throughout the country in that year, and for the United States 

 was 171/2 per cent. The lumber output as shown in these figures does 

 not include pulpwood, tanbark, tanning extracts, cross-ties, telegraph 

 and telephone poles, or cooperage and veneer stocks. 



After lumber leaves the sawmill it serves many useful purposes. 

 Some of it passes through no additional process of manufacture but 

 goes into buildings with only the cutting and fitting which carpenters 

 give it. Another part is further manufactured before it is used. 

 Wood-working machines of many kinds change its form, and it is cut 

 and fitted by skilled labor, and the rough lumber is converted into 

 finished products, such as boxes, frames, doors, sash, vehicles, boats, 

 baskets, musical instruments, furniture, brushes, toys, handles, novel- 

 ties, and many more. This study has to do with that part of the lum- 

 ber only which passes through further process of manufacture after 

 it leaves the sawmill. 



Heretofore, lumber has not been very carefully followed after leav- 

 ing the saw, to ascertain what becomes of it, what new forms are given 

 it, and into what commodities it enters. It has been known in a gen- 

 eral way that some of it is used in its rough form, while some passes 

 through additional processes of manufacture. The present study of 

 the wood-using industries of Maryland was undertaken to supply in- 

 formation concerning the lumber which is not used in its rough form. 

 The work has been done by the United States Forest Service in co- 

 operation with the State of Maryland. Industries which manufacture 



