THE USES OF WOOD 



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tensive e n o ugh 

 to attract lum- 

 ber mills. Or, as 

 frequently hap- 

 pens, the chair 

 mill follows af- 

 ter the sawmills 

 and works up 

 the left overs, 

 such as short 

 and crooked 

 logs, small trees, 

 and large 

 branches. The 

 chair dimension 

 stock is of such 

 small sizes that 

 nearly any odds 

 and ends from 

 previously cut- 

 over lands can 

 be handled. In 

 that way the chair mill utili 

 waste. Such mills operate 



This veneer 

 furniture and 

 are taken to 

 furniture. 



zes what otherwise would be 

 in hardwoods almost exclu- 



sively, because 

 few softwoods 

 are strong 

 enough for chair 

 stock. 



Chairs of spe- 

 cial kinds are 

 made in large 

 numbers, among 

 them being thea- 

 ter and hall 

 chairs, those for 

 camps and re- 

 sorts, rustic, 

 porch, and lawn 

 chairs, and many 

 other kinds that 

 are in constant 

 demand. Parlor 

 rockers and oth- 

 ers for living 

 rooms, arm 

 chairs, and high class pulpit and rostrum chairs are some 

 of the kinds included in the chair branch of the furniture 



A HIGH GRADE VENEER PLANT 



mill is located at Escanaba, Michigan, and it specializes in birds-eye maple veneer for 

 house finish. Experts locate figured trees in the forests of maple and the selected trees 

 the mill and are converted into thin sheets to constitute the visible parts of finish and 



MAHOGANY FOR VENEER 



During the past 200 years mahogany for furniture has never gone out of fashion in America, though the demand for it has varied from time to 

 time. The picture shows a flitch of this wood going against the knife in a mill to be converted into furniture veneer. Mahogany comes from 

 west Africa and tropical America. 



