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bought for cooperage, tanks, boats, wagons, office fixtures, and musical 

 instruments. Of the twenty-five woods listed, only eight were bought 

 in Maryland, and not one was wholly a State product. The total 

 quantity was 17,774,675 feet, as shown in Table 5, and less than 

 600,000 feet of it grew in Maryland. Nearly half of the whole quan- 

 tity was white oak, and it made up more than half the value. That 

 which was imported into the State cost nearly $10 a thousand more 

 than the home product, and was 98 per cent of the total. Twelve of 

 the woods on the list cost more per thousand than the white oak, and 

 twelve cost less. Its average cost was $2.54 per thousand more than 

 the average for all. 



Furniture makers paid 81 cents per thousand more for red oak than 

 for white oak, and all the red oak came from without, from as far 

 west as Indiana, as far south as North Carolina, but chiefly from 

 Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This wood was second on the list 

 in quantity and value, and more than half of all of it used in the 

 State was made into furniture. Some of the furniture makers ex- 

 press no preference for white oak over red oak, particularly for tables. 



Sugar maple holds an important place as a furniture wood, and 

 75 per cent of all reported by manufacturers in Maryland was used 

 in furniture factories. Less than 10 per cent of it was home-grown, 

 though the price paid for Maryland maple indicated that it was con- 

 sidered much superior to that from elsewhere. The price for the 

 home product was $3.79 per thousand more. The average value of 

 maple in the United States, at the mills and including the whole cut, 

 was $16.30 in 1908. Based on this, it would appear that the Mary- 

 land furniture makers bought their maple at a very reasonable price. 

 It is worthy of remark that the Maryland furniture manufacturers 

 reported the purchase of maple lumber from all six of the New Eng- 

 land States, and not a manufacturer of any commodity in the State 

 reported a purchase of this wood from farther west than West Vir- 

 ginia. Nearly one-half of all the maple lumber of the United States 

 is cut in Michigan, and that State is generally considered the chief 

 source of supply, and no explanation has been found of the fact that 

 Maryland manufacturers reported no purchases there. 



The yellow poplar manufactured into furniture cost, on an average, 

 $14.59 per thousand less than that made into interior finish. When 

 used as finish it is the outside visible wood and is selected for its 



