12 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MARYLAND 



wood in the United States in 1908 was 261,000 feet, and in 1909 the 

 Maryland manufacturers used 16,000 feet, or 6 per cent of the re- 

 ported total for the year before. The same explanation should per- 

 haps apply to dogwood as to locust, namely, that much of the output 

 goes to factories without passing through sawmills to be listed as 

 lumber. 



INDUSTRIES. 



Maryland manufacturers put more lumber into boxes and crates 

 than into any other industry, and if interior finish for houses is ex- 

 cluded, the quantity required for crates and boxes exceeds the com- 

 bined demand for all other industries that manufacture wood. A 

 smaller amount is made into interior finish, but it is of higher grade 

 than the box lumber and costs more. Nearly 48 per cent of all the 

 wood is made into packing cases of various kinds, and the total cost 

 exceeds $1,800,000. Interior finish takes 28 per cent, but its total 

 cost exceeds $2,200,000. Box lumber is the cheapest, basket material 

 next, while the most costly is for musical instruments, $50.90, while 

 that required for tanks and silos is only a little less, $48.13. 



Manufactures are grouped under thirteen headings, shown in Table 

 2. These might have been subdivided, but by so doing the amount of 

 wood used by each would have been reduced, and no corresponding 

 advantage would have resulted. Cooperage and baskets are very 

 closely related in some of their features, and in others they are far 

 apart. The chief reason for making a separate division for cigar 

 boxes, rather than include all under the heading of boxes and crates, 

 was that cigar box making is a distinct business, certain woods are 

 used almost exclusively, and those who make boxes for cigars seldom 

 make any other kind. The average price of lumber that went into 

 ordinary boxes was $13.31 per thousand, while cigar box wood costs 

 more than twice as much. 



Table 2 sets forth in condensed form the comparative amount and 

 value of the lumber that was required by the different industries. 

 The quantity used by all was 284,346,895 feet, and the average price 

 was $20.67 per thousand. If these figures are borne in mind the 

 table will show at a glance which industries paid more and which less 

 than the average, and the comparative as well as the absolute quantity 

 of lumber used by each one will be shown. A second part of the table 



