MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



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mately 14 per cent, of the total value of the imported wood. It ap- 

 pears from that fact that the grade bought by Massachusetts manu- 

 facturers was very much above the average. 



Furniture makers paid for wood grown in the State an average 

 price of $20.64, and for that brought from without $30.37. One- 

 third of all was white oak, and Massachusetts supplied 11 per cent, 

 of it, and 21 per cent, of the maple, 14 of the sweet birch, beech 16, 

 chestnut 47. A large part of all the lumber used went to chair fac- 

 tories, but the exact ratio between that made into chairs and that used 

 for other kinds of furniture can not be stated. The bulk of the chair 

 wood was beech, sweet birch and maple. 



TABLE 4. Furniture. 



