WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES OF MARYLAND 39 



LESSENING THE WASTE. 



Many of the Maryland manufacturers of wood report a tendency to 

 lessen waste in shops and factories by finding uses for small pieces 

 which formerly were thrown away. Such pieces are worked into 

 salable commodities, and much that can not be reworked at a profit 

 is put on the market as kindling wood and finds sale at fair prices. A 

 few of the methods of utilizing waste are mentioned below. They have 

 been gleaned from reports of manufacturers in all lines of wood 

 working. 



Some furniture makers glue together small, clear pieces, down to 

 an inch wide and a foot long, and find that they serve very well for 

 the interior frame work of bureaus, chiffoniers, sideboards, and similar 

 articles. 



Wheelwrights save the ends cut from spokes and shape them in 

 lathes for chisel, gimlet, auger, and other small-tool handles. Wagon 

 builders occasionally make use of scraps of hardwood for lining brake 

 blocks. Sash and blind makers save their scraps for the match fac- 

 tories, or if pieces are large enough, they are worked into corner blocks, 

 rose blocks, and balusters. Coopers recut broken or defective staves 

 of the larger sizes and make kegs or smaller vessels of them. Small 

 headings are economically manufactured in that way. Occasionally 

 defective staves and headings are made into dowels. Basket makers 

 save the cores from which veneer has been cut, and saw them into thin 

 slats for baskets and crate covers. Brush manufacturers have made 

 some headway in using waste from furniture factories, but the pieces 

 are of so many sizes and of such irregular shapes that success has been 

 only partial. A small porch-chair shop has been able to draw a con- 

 siderable part of its raw material from the waste of boat factories. 



Some of the makers of interior finish work their odds and ends of 

 softwoods into small boxes, and the hardwood scraps are made into 

 parquet flooring. Planing mills work scraps and broken pieces, un- 

 salable in that form, into boxes for apples, medicines, and other arti- 

 cles, and into brackets, balusters, roseblocks, and small quarter-round 

 molding. 



