73 



Table 50. Wood for Furniture, year ending June, 1912. 



Less than 1-100 of 1 per cent. 



CHAIRS. 



Pennsylvania is one of the three leading states in the manufacture of chairs. 

 Over 30,000,000 feet of wood is annually required for their manufacture and 

 of this amount considerably over half is furnished by the forests of the State. 

 The order of the first six states in quantity of wood consumed for chairs is 

 as follows: Wisconsin, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New 

 lork, and Vermont. It may occur to some that chairs should be grouped with 

 furniture but in Pennsylvania as in other states their manufacture is essen- 

 tially a distinct industry, generally the form of the raw material is different, 

 the processes of manufacture are in nowise similar, and the products are 

 marketed separately. 



Dimension stock is the form of raw material that is utilized in the chair 

 industry perhaps to a greater extent than any other. Sawmills cutting hard- 

 woods and factories using them, principally beech, birch, and maple, often 

 operate as a side line the bolting of low grades and waste into these squares. 



