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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



CHAIRS 



In Table LIII, fourteen woods are reported as entering into the 

 production of chairs, and a total of 5,333,500 board feet is required 

 for this purpose. Possibly it is the opinion of some that this 

 industry should be consolidated with furniture, but in Ohio, as in 

 other States, the manufacture of chairs is essentially a separate 

 industry. The average price paid for the raw material indicates 

 that a fairly good grade of chairs is turned out, but the products 

 made include every kind from a cheap office stool or a kitchen 

 chair to highly carved ecclesiastical and lodge room chairs. In com- 

 parison with the price for wood shown in the furniture table, chair 

 makers pay $10.74 per thousand feet more. This does not indicate, 

 however, that better grades of lumber, comparing species with 

 species, is used, but that the large proportion of furniture materials 

 are cheaper woods, employed for veneer backings and other hidden 

 work, while the expensive exterior woods being mostly thin sheets 

 of veneer make up only a small percentage of the total and there- 

 fore do not tend to aid much in raising the average price. 



Fig. 23. Chair stock and the squares from which they are turned. 

 The squares were bolted from slabs. 



Dimension stock is utilized in the chair industry to a greater 

 extent than any other. A number of both the large and small saw- 

 mills and a few factories throughout the State as a side 



