THE USES OF WOOD 



735 



listed in the table which immediately follows: 



Hardwood Feet 



Oak 431,053.283 



Red gum 102,237,867 



Maple 87,571456 



Birch 54.677,450 



Yellow poplar 53,374,850 



Chestnut 44,734,180 



Basswood 33,146,276 



Beech 21,163,204 



Ash 15,668,588 



Elm 12,154,102 



Cottonwood 5,188,309 



Tupelo 2,529,000 



Black walnut 1,689,957 



Sycamore 1,474,957 



Hickory 843,600 



Red alder 792,500 



Cherry 622,530 



Butternut 593,500 



477,ioo 



415,000 



70,000 



40,000 



35,ooo 



16,000 



15,000 



1,000 



15,650 



Magnolia. 



Buckeye 



Hackberry 



Willow 



Persimmon .... 



Cucumber 



Hornbeam 



Osage Orange. 

 Miscellaneous. . 



Photograph by courtesy of the 

 Tennessee. 



Total 870,570,284 



The softwoods fill a minor place in the manu- 

 facture of furniture. They have two main uses : 

 first, for cheap articles like kitchen tables; and, 

 second, as the inside, unseen portions of high grade 

 furniture, notably as backing or core stock on which to 



Gum Lumber Manufacturers' 1 Association, Memphis, 

 UNIQUE PATTERNS IN CHAIRS 



Novel patterns in chairs afford opportunities to display the beauties of woods to 

 excellent advantage The chairs in the accompanying cut are of gum. Plain as 

 well as figured material is used. Some chair manufacturers finish gum in imitation 

 of quartered oak, black walnut, and cherry, as well as of the foreign wood, Cir- 

 cassion walnut. 



glue veneers. The annual call for native softwoods 

 in this industry is shown in the following table : 



Softiuood Feet 



Pine 30,442,703 



Fir 11,390,290 



Hemlock 7,053,446 



Cypress 3,477,800 



Spruce 2,270,500 



Cedar 1,856,100 



Redwood 355> 2 50 



Larch 154,000 



Total 57,000,089 



A complete list of the foreign woods 

 demanded by the furniture makers of 

 the United States would contain more 

 than fifty species, but many of them 

 are used' in quite small amounts and 

 are distributed among numerous shops 

 and factories. Mahogany is by all 

 odds the most important and a num- 

 ber of woods are included under that 

 name which are not true mahoganies. 

 Nevertheless, genuine mahogany ex r 

 ceeds in quantity the aggregate of all 

 other foreign woods in the industry, 

 as the following list shows : 



Foreign woods Feet 



Mahogany 15,637,125 



Lignum-vitae 593.663 



Circassian walnut 452,040 



Padouk 230,000 



A FIGURED GUM BEDSTEAD 



When this wood is exported to Europe it is usually known as satin walnut, and sometimes as 

 hazel pine. The surface finishes so smoothly that it suggests satin, and it also resembles walnut. 

 The tree belongs to the hazel family and its other name is due to that fact. It has two names 

 in this country, red gum and sap gum, the former being the heartwood, the latter the sapwood, 

 but all from the same tree. 



Prima vera. 

 Satinwood . 

 Rosewood. . 

 Eucalyptus 



Ebony 



Spanish cedar. 



67,500 



22,070 



15,280 



5,500 



5,450 



1,600 



Miscellaneous 46,580 



Total 17,079,498 



