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MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



TABLE 12. Refrigerators. 



HORSE VEHICLES. 



Vehicles to be drawn by horses and those operated by power are 

 distinct so far as manufacturing is concerned. The number of 

 wagons, carts, drays, carriages and conveyances of that kind is ap- 

 parently as large as ever, notwithstanding the increase in number 

 of automobiles. Table 13 shows what was done in Massachusetts 

 the past year in the manufacture of vehicles for horses. The number 

 of vehicles is not shown, but the woods used are listed. These woods 

 are generally high in price, the average being $58.85 per thousand. 

 Massachusetts furnishes only 14 per cent, of this, and the average 

 price is $25.98 lower than for imported timber. Except red oak, 

 every wood from without cost more than the same species grown at 

 home. Red oak was the same for both. A number of firms which 

 formerly did their own manufacturing reported that they no longer 

 do so, but buy vehicles ready to sell, or nearly ready, and now act as 

 selling agents or merchants. They generally buy in the middle west. 

 Others buy wooden parts dressed and fitted, and complete the work 

 by putting the irons on and doing the painting. In this industry, as 

 in many others, the manufacturing shows a tendency to move toward 

 the source of supply for the raw material. A considerable part of 

 the wood listed in Table 13 was used in repair work. 



