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WOOD-QSING INDUSTRIES 



common uses are for machine parts, saddle trees, stirrups, ox-yokes I 

 clothespins, whipstocks, shoe lasts, peg's and lamps. Vehicle 

 makers employ both maples extensively for various purposes and 

 for turnery, the two with beech are the principal woods. They also 

 serve for staves chiefly for sugar barrels and to a larg-e extent for 

 veneers. In the distillation of hardwoods for charcoal, wood alcohol 

 and the acetates the maples are held in high favor. Soft maple is 

 lighter than hard maple, and is hard, strong, brittle, close-grained, 

 compact, easily worked. The color of the wood is light brown 

 tinged with red and has lighter sapwood. 



TABLE VII. Maples 



Industry 



Quantity used annually 



Feet b. m. 



Percent 



Average 

 cost per 

 1,000 ft. 



Boxes and crates '8,007,396 



Planing- mill products 5,814,910 



Furniture.... 4,526,201 



Agricultural implements 4,270,500 



Handles 3,835,496 



Vehicles and vehicle parts 2 , 536, 701 



Instruments, musical 2,369,000 



Fixtures i.^OO 



Woodenware and novelties 715,000 



Miscellaneous 610 , 000 



Car construction 517,295 



Machine construction 514,000 



Chairs 509,000 



Sash, doors, blinds and general mill work 493,000 



Refrigerators and kitchen cabinets 335 , 209 



Plumbers' woodwork 320,000 



Pulleys and conveyors 25o,000 



Elevators 250,000 



Laundry appliances 220,000 



Instruments, professional and scientific 130,000 



Dairymen's, poulterers' and apiarists' supplies 97,000 



Brushes SP,' 417 



Patterns and flasks 32,500 



Saddles and harness 30, 000 



Ship and boat building 10,000 



Frames and molding 250 



Total. 38,328,275 



20.89 

 15.17 

 11.81 

 11.14 

 10.01 



6-18 

 4.82 

 1.87 

 1.59 



1.35 

 1.34 

 1.33 

 1.29 



.87 



.83 

 .67 

 .65 

 .57 



.21 

 .08 

 .08 

 .03 



$14.61 

 27.89 

 26.85 

 28.04 

 22.71 



43.91 

 28.44 

 25.62 

 20.50 

 41.43 



34.18 

 23.13 

 25.31 

 32 37 

 22.21 



25.31 

 23.31 

 30.00 

 29.54 

 27.23 



19.37 

 28.46 

 25.23 

 30.00 

 30 00 

 36.00 



100.00 



$24.72 



*Less than .01 of 1 percent. 



HICKORIES 



The mockernut {Hicoria alba), the pig-nut {Hicoria glabrd}, the 

 bitternut {Hicoria minima), the shag-bark {Hicoria ovata], the shell- 

 bark {Hicoria laciniosa), and the small fruited hickory {Hicoria 

 microcarpa) are found in Ohio. The species grow more or less 

 generally throughout the State. The woods of the different 

 hickories are very similar, thus making- it difficult to distinguish 

 them. Consequently, the lumber dealers and manufacturers make 

 no attempt to keep the species separate and little information is 





