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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



sively from ash. More than 20 million feet of all kinds of wood went 

 into furniture in Virginia in 1911 and over 70 percent of it was from 

 State-grown material. 



TABLE 9. FURNITURE. 



BASKETS, FRUIT, AND VEGETABLE PACKAGES 



In a number of the States for which wood-using industry reports 

 have been written/ information of woods used for making baskets, 

 fruit and vegetable packages was included in the industry for box mak- 

 ing. In Virginia as in North Carolina and Ketucky the factories 

 making these commodities are distinct from the box manufacturers. 

 The number of them justifies their grouping into a separate class. They 

 comprise an important industry f and according to the quantity of wood 

 used they are one of the seven principal groups of manufacturers 

 operating in the State. 



The products of this industry are made almost exclusively of 

 veneer. The tops and bottoms of baskets and veneer barrels have to 

 be thicker material and are made from thin lumber which is often 

 sawed from cores, that part of tlhe log left after the verueer has 

 been removed, wood waste or made from low grades. The principal 

 woods reported for making veneeer packages were red gum, tupelo, 

 and black gum. These trees abound in the southeastern and southern 

 part of the State in North Carolina near Virginia's southern line. 



