

includes several species the three most important of which 

 are long-leaf, short-leaf and loblolly. Oak, including all spe- 

 cies, has nearly 2 billion feet, and is the most important 

 hardwood. Maple comes next. 



Dogwood comes about half way down the list with more 

 than 7 million board feet, and of those species mentioned, 

 Turkish boxwood comes last, with less than 30 thousand feet, 

 followed by many others too insignificant to list but making 

 a total of all kinds of more than a million feet. Of the na- 

 tive species, laurel, holly and yucca fall very near the foot 

 of the list in relative quantities used. 



55 Industries Use Wood. 



Fifty-five principal industries use wood as raw material. 

 Their relative importance is hard to indicate, because quan- 

 tity alone is not in all cases a criterion of value of an in- 

 dustry to the community in which it is situated, nor to the 

 country as a whole. 



More than one-half of the total consumption consists of 

 planing-mill products, the largest items of which are flooring, 

 siding, ceiling, and finishing. The next industry, in point of 

 quantity of wood used, is the manufacture of boxes and crates. 

 Nearly four times as much wood is demanded by makers of 

 boxes and crates as by the builders of steam and electric 

 cars, which come next, and fivefold the amount that goes into 

 furniture, which in turn leads vehicle manufacture. Vehicles 

 demand surprisingly large supplies of wood, and much of it 

 must be of a high class in order to meet requirements for 

 frames, gears, and bodies. 



Chairs, listed separately from furniture, come after novel- 

 ties and supplies for dairymen, poultry keepers, and apiarists, 

 and just before handles, and musical instruments. About 

 midway down the list come pumps and wood pipes. Among 

 the products important enough to list separately are canes 

 and umbrella sticks, brooms, firearms, artificial limbs, and to- 

 bacco pipes. 



The apportionment of wood among the various industries, 

 grades from planing-mill products, which take most, down to 

 aeroplanes and dry kilns, at the bottom of the list. 



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