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TABLE XXXV, Summary of woods by industries in Ohio 



To maintain uniformity in the reports, the same classification is 

 here followed that has been used in preparing- similar reports for 

 other States. Whenever more than three manufacturers in the 

 State specialize in the making- of a certain commodity, or closely 

 related commodities, their specialty is classed as an industry. For 

 instance, the cigar box manufacturers make one kind of container, 

 the trunk manufacturers another, and the casket manufacturers, in 

 their outer cases or roug-h boxes, still another. Instead of listing- 

 these several products as "Boxes," they are classified under separate 

 titles. The same rule accounts for separating manufacture of chairs 

 from furniture making, but in several cases the classifications run 

 so closely together that a distinction is difficult to make. Because 

 of this fact, an arbitrary division of the data was sometimes unavoid- 

 able. These cases will be pointed out later on under the discussion 

 of the individual industry tables. In many cases, the information 



