4O WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



fancy designs known as parquetry flooring. More oak is used for 

 parquetry floors than any other wood. 



In Virginia, as in the" northeastern States, beech flooring is growing 

 in popularity. Large quantities of the mountain trees were cut for this 

 use, but most of the supply came from from -outside the State, mostly 

 from West Virginia, The large amounts of 'home-grown birch and 

 maple going into flooring was quite surprising. Chestnut flooring is 

 recommended for porch floors owing to its durability when exposed to 

 the elements. 



The properties of absorbing and holding paint better than any 

 other wood makes yellow poplar especially serviceable for siding. 

 Nearly two million feet were converted into this commodity. Based 

 on the quantity used, loblolly pine was the leading wood for siding in 

 Virginia. It is cheaper than yellow poplar, more convenient, and made 

 as most of it is from the sapwood of old-field growths, it readily takes 

 and holds paint. White pine, cypress, hemlock, scrub pine, and small 

 quantities of basswood and buckeye also served in Virginia for siding. 

 Scrub pine lumber has many tight knots. The use of this wood by 

 the planing-mills was mostly for making cheap barn siding. 



For interior trim, such as door and window mouldings, baseboards, 

 and quarter-sawed stuff, the variety of figure of the loblolly or Virginia 

 pine makes it preferable to longleaf, besides being easier for the car- 

 penter to fit and nail. Yellow poplar and basswood are the woods 

 worked into these commodities for painted work. Of the hardwoods 

 chestnut, red oak, and white oak lead the moulding woods in quantity. 

 Ash, cypress, walnut, and birch were the other woods serving for in- 

 terior trim. Like flooring and siding, finish is worked up into stock 

 patterns and bundled ready for the market. It will be noted no red 

 gum in Virginia was so used, although the Missouri and Mississippi 

 reports show that this wood was in large demand for this purpose. 

 In Louisiana, large quantities of tupelo served for making finish. 

 The Pacific Coast States have still different woods for meeting the 

 demands for interior work. Douglas fir, western hemlock (a species 

 different from the eastern hemlock), and western yellow pine were 

 the leaders. ' These are the cheap softwoods because very abundant, 

 but they possess an attractive grain. Sitka spruce and western reJ 

 cedar are other conifers answering for this use, while the hardwoods 

 most extensively used are Oregon maple, western birch, and red alder. 



Roofers in Virginia were manufactured exclusively from yellow 

 pine. Loblolly, shortleaf, and scrub pine were the species meeting 

 the demand. These sheeting boards are made only from low grades 

 of lumber. 



