MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



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industry, being $14.06 per thousand. White pine made 87 per cent, 

 of it. Massachusetts furnished approximately 66 per cent, of all the 

 wood reported. This was a percentage of home supply larger than for 

 any other industry except toys (Table 19). Eleven species of wood 

 were reported, and all are grown in Massachusetts except cypress, 

 though the State seems to have supplied none of the white cedar. All 

 the beech, white birch, chestnut, hemlock, maple and pitch pine were 

 cut in the State, and 65 per cent, of the total amount used was home- 

 grown. The average price of State-grown woods was higher than for 

 those shipped in. 



TABLE 9. Cooperage and Tanks. 



SHUTTLES, SPOOLS AND BOBBINS. 



Statistics of the manufacture of shuttles, spools and bobbins were 

 compiled with difficulty, because much of the material is partly or 

 wholly manufactured outside the State, and is received in small pieces 

 difficult to measure and reduce to feet. Table 10 presents available 

 data, but the total amount of wood used in the State is probably more 

 than the table shows. The highest-priced material was dogwood, used 

 exclusively for shuttles, and worth $175 per thousand feet, which 

 was above the average for mahogany. It reaches the factory in blocks 

 of many sizes. Tennessee and Kentucky supplied the most of it. 



