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was white oak, but exactly how much of it is not known. It is evident 

 that a comparatively small amount of it was made into interior finish, 

 and that small amount was carefully selected. 



Nearly one-third as much red oak as white oak was used, and 

 strangely enough, that which was cut in the State was very cheap, 

 and that brought from without was more costly than the imported 

 white oak, or more than three times as expensive as the red oak grown 

 at home. In fact, as may be seen in Table 4, the Maryland-grown 

 red oak was the cheapest lumber bought by the makers of interior 

 finish. The very low price is to some extent due to the practice of 

 some makers of finish who buy the logs and do their own sawing, 

 and figure that the cost is what they pay for logs delivered at their 

 mills. 



Twenty-three woods are listed as material for interior finish, rang- 

 ing in amount from longleaf pine down to butternut, and in price from 

 Circassian walnut at $200 a thousand to loblolly pine at $14.80. 

 Eleven of these were cut in part in Maryland. 



Sugar pine holds an important place in this industry, and is ninth 

 as to quantity in the list of twenty-five woods, and ninth as to value. 

 It comes from California and Southern Oregon, and resembles white 

 pine. It is the only far-western wood listed among the interior-finish 

 materials in Maryland. The whole importation of sugar pine into 

 the State, except 50,000 feet, was used in this industry. It is made 

 into blinds, doors, sash, and frames. 



A small quantity of live oak was reported from Virginia and North 

 Carolina. This wood has seldom been listed for any commercial pur- 

 pose other than shipbuilding, and for that reason its newly-found 

 place among interior-finish materials is important, though the amount 

 used is not large. It emphasizes a tendency to find uses for timbers 

 heretofore neglected. 



All of the cucumber reported by the manufacturers in the State 

 went into interior finish, and the quantity was small. The output 

 of cucumber in the United States in 1908 was 21,000,000 feet, and 

 the chief cut was in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, States border- 

 ing on two sides of Maryland. Being in such close proximity to the 

 principal sources of supply, it is remarkable that so small a quantity 

 found use in Maryland. 



All the butternut reported in the State was made into interior finish, 



