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The coopers in the State paid a higher average price for white oak 

 than was paid by any other industry, except tank builders, and a 

 lower price for red oak. Eed gum was the only wood wholly supplied 

 by Maryland, while seven of the eleven on the list were supplied 

 wholly from outside States. A striking difference is noted between 

 the average cost of home-grown wood and that from without, the 

 latter being more than four times as high. The State produced 28 

 per cent of all the wood used in the cooperage industry. 



TABLE 6. Cooperage. 



BASKETS. 



Tupelo was the only wood used by the basket makers of Maryland 

 that was not supplied wholly or in considerable part by the forests of 

 the State, as Table Y sets forth. The entire cut of beech and maple 

 came from Maryland, though the quantity of neither was large. The 

 cost of the beech was very low and was based on logs delivered at the 

 factories, and not on sawed lumber. Much of it was cut in veneer 

 and was made into small berry baskets or light fruit baskets. In 

 fact, most of all the wood reported by basket manufacturers was made 

 into veneer, the exception to this being in the bottoms and bands, and 

 in some cases in the covers. 



The wood of highest average price was white elm, which is the com- 

 mon elm so largely planted for shade. Though the average price was 

 highest of all the ten species in the list of basket woods, the high price 

 applied only to the elm shipped into the State, while that grown in 

 Maryland was only $7 a thousand, the same as beech. That price, as 



