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MASSACHUSETTS WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES. 



HANDLES. 



The handles represented by Table 20 are chiefly for buckets, pack- 

 ages, boxes, knives, shovels, tools and articles which do not require 

 tough woods. Ax and hammer handles are of another kind. They 

 account for the 25,000 feet of hickory listed in the table. Massa- 

 chusetts grew all the hickory, and its price was higher than that of 

 any other wood. Cherry was supplied wholly by the State, but its 

 price was lowest. As in the case of toys, the average price of State- 

 grown wood was above that of the imported lumber. 



TABLE 20. Handles. 



BRUSHES. 



The manufacture of brushes calls for a variety of woods, ranging 

 in price from beech at $10.53 per thousand feet to ebony at $250. 

 All the holly reported for the State was taken by the brush makers. 

 It grew in North Carolina. It is worked into backs and handles for 

 toilet brushes. The same use is made of rosewood, mahogany, black 

 walnut and ebony. Cheaper woods serve as backs and handles of 

 clothes brushes, blacking brushes, scrub brushes and others of similar 

 kind. The purpose was to include under " Handles " (Table 20) 

 all woods made into handles, as separate from the article as a whole ; 

 but it is probable that some of the woods listed under " Brushes " 

 (Table 21) was made into handles for paint, varnish, whitewash and 

 shaving brushes. The average price of home-grown woods was 30 

 per cent, under the average for outside material. 



