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sessing qualities adaptable to the special use of the brush. This accounts 

 for the long list shown in the table. There are sixteen woods, and beech 

 constitutes much the largest amount, being equal to almost half of the 

 total. This wood is one of the most plentiful hardwoods growing in Penn- 

 sylvania, having properties admirably suited for cheap brushes, and is 

 one of the factors making the industry important in the state. Maple fur- 

 nishes material for brush blocks considerably more desirable than beech, 

 and, therefore, is in demand for a better grade of brushes. It follows 

 beech in importance as to quantity but of course is higher priced. In no 

 other industry is cherry reported in so large amounts as for brushes. Its 

 low average price as compared to that paid for the same wood by other 

 classes of factories in the State is quite surprising. This industry does 

 not include altogether the production of cheap brush blocks such as are 

 used for making scrubbing, creamery, and brewery, sinks, dust pan, horse, 

 feather dusters, window, stove, carpet, paint, whitewash, and frescoing 

 brushes, and stable and street brooms, but it includes blocks for better 

 grades requiring higher priced woods, such as red cedar, ash, sycamore, 

 holly, red oak, black walnut, rosewood, boxwood, and other foreign woods. 

 The latter kinds are used for hair brushes, hat, jewelry, clothes, hand, 

 nail, and flesh brushes. The absence of mahogany and ebony from the 

 list of high grade brush woods is hard to explain but none of the manufac- 

 turers reported them in this State. 



Table 68. Wood for Brushes, year ending June, 1912. 



SHUTTLES, SPOOLS, AND BOBBINS. 



The industry making bobbins, spools, shuttles and other loom appliances 

 is in quantity not so large and important in Pennsylvania as in Maine, 

 New York, and New Hampshire; but the fact that these commodities manu- 

 factured in Pennsylvania go almost entirely for use in silk mills, and only 



