OF VIRGINIA 



these woods were over $5 and $3, respectively, less than the white and 

 red oak reported by the furniture manufacturers. Dining-room chairs, 

 rockers, and liglht bed-room chairs finished natural with wax or varnish, 

 constituted the principal commodities made. The increasing popu- 

 larity of Mission furniture in recent years, has favored the makers of 

 oak chairs by increasing the demand. Oak is the principal wood used 

 for Mission designs and a fairly large per cent of the products of the 

 Virginia chair factories were made after these patterns. Sugar maple 

 was made into turned chair stock and the ash reported went into mess 

 benches used on board of large vessels. 



TABLE 22. CHAIRS. 



DAIRY, POULTRY, AND APIARIST SUPPLIES 



Various commodities made of wood are used by the dairyman, the 

 poultry raiser, and the apiarist. Churns, firkins, and butter moulds are 

 examples of the first named; incubators, coops, and nest boxes of the 

 second, and beehives, their compartments, and honey shipping cases of 

 the third. 



The only dairyman's articles manufactured in Virginia are butter 

 churns. Ash is the wood used; and in all of the States so far studied 

 for wood utilization, this kind of wood constitutes the principal churn 

 material. Most of the ash delivered to the Virginia factories comes 

 from without the State, North Carolina furnishing the largest part. 



Beehives being placed in the open, exposed to the elements, are 

 in situations which favor decay. They are therefore usually well 

 painted with oil and leads before leaving the factory, which preserves 

 the outside, but to retard decay from the inside moisture, the natural 

 decay-resisting properties of the lumber used are depended upon. 

 Woods are selected with this point in view. Like the makers of 

 apiarist supplies in Wisconsin and Michigan, where probably the largest 

 number of beehives are made, the Virginia manufacturers use white 



