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REFRIGERATORS AND KITCHEN CABINETS 



The products represented by Table LII include the manu- 

 facture of kitchen cabinets and cupboards and refrigerators for 

 home use and built-in refrigerators or coolers used by butchers and 

 others doing 1 business requiring 1 cold storage equipment. The com- 

 bination kitchen cabinet having compartments providing a handy 

 place for all the accessories for cooking necessary to be kept in the 

 kitchen has in late years come into popular demand and many 

 factories specialize in making them. Because they are sold at a low 

 price cabinets and cupboards are made of lower grades of woods 

 than furniture. The outside work is largely made of plain oak 

 both white and red and to a limited extent from chestnut and hard 

 maple. Soft maple, yellow birch and red gum enter into backs, 

 while the shelving and drawer sides and bottoms and compartments 

 are made from yellow poplar, basswood, sycamore, and- red gum. 

 Soft elm and cypress went into frame work. 



In the manufacture of refrigerators cypress is the leading wood 

 selected because of its durability where it is damp, and is employed 

 for ice pans and inside lining. White pine and spruce are also 

 used but in less quantities. Pan joists, framing, and reinforce- 

 ments are of yellow poplar and white pine, while yellow poplar with 

 shortleaf pine answers for door parts. The built-in refrigerators 

 and cooling rooms used in hotels and business houses are made of 

 a number of woods which accounts for the long list, shown in the 

 following table. 



TABLE LII. Refrigerators and kitchen cabinets 



