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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MARYLAND 



was small. The sweet birch and sycamore here listed were also higher 

 in price than under any other industry. 



Yellow poplar constituted 26 per cent of all the lumber used, chest- 

 nut and white oak 24 per cent each. The amount of mahogany was 

 comparatively large, and in total cost it was third, while yellow poplar 

 was second, and white oak was first. The poplar was comparatively 

 low in price, and much of it was used as interior work, shelving, 

 drawers, etc., and not as the visible outside. The average run-of-mill 

 value of yellow poplar for the whole country in 1908 was $25.30, 

 while the fixture makers in Maryland paid only $1.72 more for theirs 

 delivered at the factory. 



Seventy-two per cent of all the cherry reported in the State was 

 bought for this industry, and the price paid was more than double the 

 average run-of-mill value for the whole country. 



Of the eleven kinds of wood used by the fixture manufacturers of 

 Maryland, ten grow in commercial quantities in the State, and yet not 

 one foot was supplied by the State to the manufacturers. 



TABLE 13. Store and Office Fixtures. 



MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 



The musical-instrument makers of Maryland pay a higher average 

 price for the wood they use than is paid by any other class of manu- 

 facturers of wood in the State. More kinds of foreign woods are 

 used in this industry than in any other, and they include the highest- 

 priced woods reported in the State. The highest-priced are in very 

 small quantities, but their uses are special and they are entitled to 



