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lar was State-grown is somewhat surprising. In no other industry of this 

 report does wood, State-grown, e^ual so large a per cent, of the total. 

 Nearly six and a half million feet was required and of this over 85 per cent. 

 is cut in Pennsylvania. 



Table 66. Wood for Toys, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



TRUNKS AND VALISES. 



Nine woods make up the four million feet of lumber required yearly 

 in Pennsylvania for making trunks. A number of manufacturers do all 

 the work from the arrival of the rough lumber to the covering, lining, and 

 varnishing of the finished commodity, but others make only the rough 

 boxes in the white, others slats, and others purchase the different parts 

 already manufactured and merely put them together and finish them. The 

 last named class of manufacturers did not make reports for this study be- 

 cause they do not operate wood-working machinery and are merely as- 

 semblers. The fact that white elm leads in quantity all other woods listed 

 in the table indicates that in Pennsylvania the slat makers form the most 

 important division of this industry. The quantity demanded, though fairly 

 large, does not equal the amount of ash, which, next to elm, is- generally 

 the principal slat wood. Hickory is a frequently used slat wood on sample 

 cases because of its strength but none of the trunk makers reported its use 

 in Pennsylvania; its weight and its high price being against it. 



Basswood is the favorite wood for trunk boxes and in Pennsylvania fur- 

 nished about three-quarters of the material which the manufacturers used. 

 It works easily and holds its shape. The fact that it is fairly strong for its 

 weight qualifies it more than any other factor for this use. Cottonwood 

 is its principal competitor and in the country at large is used in larger 

 cuantities. Like basswood it enters largely into veneer and then into built- 

 up lumber from which the better grades of trunk boxes are largely made. 

 Three and four -ply are the thicknesses principally used. Besides being of 



