COMMERCIAL USES OF SUGAR MAPLE 



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WELL PILED MICHIGAN MAPLE LUMBER 



Much of the mill man's success depends on the way his lumber is stacked 

 in the yard. It should season flat and straight. It will then pass 

 through the machines with the minimum of waste. 



The makers of pumps and wooden pipe for conducting 

 water or other liquids require 1,706,000 feet of maple 

 annually. 



Elevator makers report 1,652,000 feet. It is worked 

 into guides and floors. 



Nearly one and a half million feet go into saddles and 

 harness, chiefly as hames and as trees or frames for 

 saddles. 



The pins or dowels which serve to fasten together the 

 different parts of doors, furniture, interior finish and 

 fixtures call for 1,354,000 feet of maple a year. 



Toothpicks account for 1,200,000 feet, but paper birch 

 greatly exceeds maple as toothpick material. The log is 

 first reduced to veneer of proper thickness and is then 

 sliced into picks. 



The consumption of more than a million feet of maple 

 a year is reported by manufacturers of electrical machin- 

 ery and apparatus. 



Whip handles, canes and umbrella handles call for 

 more than a million feet. 



A like quantity finds its wsy to boat yards as mate- 

 rial for construction of vessels of all sizes. Most of it 

 is used as trim. 



The making of mine machinery and other appliances 

 and equipment draws liberally upon maple. 



Approximately 870,000 feet a year go to factories 

 which make shade and map rollers, and most of it is 



converted into the small plugs to which are fastened the 

 springs that by uncoiling raise the shades. Most of the 

 rollers are white pine. 



Considerably more than three-quarters of a million feet 

 of maple a year is manufactured into faucets and bungs 

 for barrels and kegs. 



Nearly an equal quantity is consumed in making the 

 numerous articles and apparatus classed as playground 

 equipment. Other uses are for printing material, brooms 

 and carpet sweepers, weighing apparatus, plumbers' 

 woodwork, sewing machines, picture frames, silos and 

 tanks, artificial limbs (crutches), gates and fencing, pat- 

 terns and foundry flasks, caskets and coffins, advertising 

 signs, clocks, cigar boxes. 



In the State of New York 130 separate uses of maple 

 are reported by factories, 164 in Illinois, 168 in Michi- 

 gan and 336 in Pennsylvania. 



SLACK COOPERAGE 



Cooperage or stave ware is divided in two classes, 

 called slack and tight. The latter term is applied to 

 barrels intended to hold liquids, while stave containers 



HANDLES OF SUGAR MAPLE 



Mop and broom handles are made usually from three varieties of wood, 



and one of these is sugar maple. 



