WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



pine. It went into the hive proper, while basswood was used for the 

 honey sections. Cypress and redwood, like white pine, are favorite 

 out-door woods and are called on extensively in other States to meet 

 the demands of the beehive makers. 



All of the incubators, brooders, and other apparatus, except coops, 

 used in Virginia by poultry raisers are shipped in from other States. 

 Chicken coops of many kinds, and especially crate coops for shipping 

 live poultry, are home made and large quantities of material annually 

 are required for making them. They are constructed with a view of 

 being as light as is consistent with the rough treatment they receive 

 and as strong as possible. The frames of -the coops are mostly chestnut, 

 the rods or rungs of hickory and the bottoms of some wood light in 

 weight, usually poplar, basswood and cucumber. Another design of 

 crates and coops growing in favor is the woven bottom coops. These 

 have poultry wire stretched over bent hickory ribs. The bottoms are 

 made of thin strips, split or shaved from white oak, black oak, white 

 ash, and probably cottongum. They are woven together in the same 

 fashion as the common splint basket. All of the material used for coops 

 was from Virginia grown timber. 



TABLE 23. DAIRY, POULTERERS AND APIARIST SUPPLIES. 



SHUTTLE BLOCKS. 



This industry concerns the manufacturing of rough shuttles which 

 afterwards are sent to other facto res to be finished and polished. Bob- 

 bins are usually made by the same concerns, but in Virginia none of 

 the shuttle makers reported turning them. Dogwood and persimmon 

 are the principal woods the country over for shuttle making, and for 

 this purpose they both meet their most exacting demand. Persimmon 

 is probably used in the larger quantities. In Virginia, however, the 



