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MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



logs that would have made good lumber. Mill men would make no 

 offer on lots so small, though the general demand in the State for 

 logs is far greater than the supply. 



TABLE 14. Garden and Farm Implements. 



AUTOMOBILES. 



Manufacturers of automobiles predict that the use of wood in their 

 industry will not increase in proportion to the increased output of 

 the factories. Aluminum is taking the place of yellow poplar, ma- 

 hogany, walnut and other expensive woods in the construction of 

 bodies. The industry is so new that figures are not available to 

 show the rate at which wood is being replaced by metal. Frames, 

 however, are of wood, and apparently will continue to be. Of the 

 1,894,000 feet used, 1,279,000 feet were hickory and ash, and went 

 into frames. Massachusetts-grown timber constituted 2 per cent, of 

 quantity and less than 1 per cent, of value. Nine American woods 

 and two foreign were listed in this industry. 



