36 WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MARYLAND 



by the forests of the State, and they only to a small extent. They 

 were ash, black walnut, and cherry. 



Frames and interior parts of instruments demanded chiefly spruce, 

 ash, maple, white pine, basswood, and cypress, while outside woods 

 were mahogany, black walnut, cherry, and Circassian walnut. Special 

 uses, such as keys, and parts of actions, and other mechanisms, were 

 made of ebony, holly, boxwood, tulipwood, white pine, and maple. 

 Piano keys are sometimes made of select basswood, fine panels of yel- 

 low poplar, and cypress. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Nearly 15,000,000 feet of lumber, or about 5 per cent of the total 

 quantity reported by the manufacturers of the State in 1909, are 

 represented in Table 15. Twenty-four woods are listed, two of them 

 foreign, rosewood, and lignum-vitae, which occur nowhere else in this 

 report The latter is a product of the West Indies, and the shipments 

 reported for Maryland were used for bowling balls and bearings for 

 gudgeons. The rosewood, which comes from South America, was 

 manufactured into gavels, small handles, and police clubs. 



Twenty-six per cent of the lumber reported under the head of mis- 

 cellaneous manufactures was basswood, and it made up 71 per cent 

 of all the basswood manufactured in Maryland. It is the most im- 

 portant material in the State for the woodenware makers, and is 

 largely used for ironing boards, bread boards, chopping bowls, trays, 

 cloth boards, mirror frames, spice drawers, tea chests, sample cases, 

 trunks, humidors, and a great number of other commodities. It im- 

 parts little or no stain or taste to articles of food brought in contact 

 with it, and for that reason it has many uses where most other woods 

 are not satisfactory. Cottonwood has been substituted for it in Mary- 

 land to a small extent, shipments for that purpose coming from 

 Louisiana or other Southern States. Twenty-three per cent of the 

 cottonwood reported for Maryland was in the miscellaneous list, and 

 the chief part of it was substituted for basswood. Its average cost 

 per thousand was $6.57 less than basswood. 



Loblolly pine is next after basswood the highest in quantity under 

 miscellaneous uses. Its amount is not large, however, compared with 

 the total loblolly pine used in the State about 7 per cent. The prin- 

 cipal uses for that listed in the table were for picture and mirror 



