14 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MARYLAND 



separates the wood for each industry into that grown in the State and 

 that brought from without, and cost is figured on that basis. In every 

 case the average cost of lumber from without was greater than that 

 grown in the State, which is no cause for surprise since freight is 

 in all cases added to the mill prices, and the longer the haul the higher 

 the freight must be. The average cost in the State was $14.44: and 

 outside $22.25. The difference in some instances is much greater 

 than the difference in freight between the home and the outside haul. 

 The wood for horse vehicles, for instance, costs $29.96 if grown in 

 Maryland, and twice as much if brought from without. The reason 

 for this can not be shown in a table condensed from hundreds of re- 

 ports as this one is, but it is safe to conclude in all cases where the 

 difference in cost is so great, that the higher price was paid for a 

 much higher class of wood. The difference is even greater in the 

 cost of wood for cooperage, and for the same reason. Perhaps the 

 difference in cost between state-grown and imported box lumber very 

 nearly represents the difference in freight, for there was little differ- 

 ence in the kinds of lumber used. It is worthy of note that three of 

 the industries listed in the table reported the use of no Maryland- 

 grown wood. These are tanks and silos, cigar boxes, and store and 

 office fixtures. 



BOXES AND CRATES. 



Seventeen kinds of wood are used by the box makers of Maryland, 

 who consume 136,000,000 feet a year or nearly 48 per cent of all 

 the wood demanded by the manufacturers of the State for all purposes. 

 Loblolly pine heads the list in quantity and cost, and scrub pine is 

 second with 17,000,000 feet. The bulk of the cut of scrub pine in 

 the State was bought by box makers, and it was their cheapest material. 

 The Maryland product cost $8.18 per thousand feet, and the imported 

 scrub pine, which came principally from Virginia, averaged $13.92. 

 The Maryland-grown wood of this species was the cheapest of all the 

 lumber reported by the manufacturers of the State. It has been ex- 

 tensively cut for fuel for many years, but its use for lumber is of a 

 more recent date. The trees are usually small and knotty, and the 

 logs are often sawed in wane-edge boards and go in that form to the 

 box mills where they are run through edgers, and are then cut to 

 required lengths for boxes and crates. The home-grown loblolly costs 



