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MISCELLANEOUS 



The products of those factories which could not be Hsted as 

 separate industries without revealing the identity of the informant are 

 grouped under Table 27. The twenty-two woods shown in the 

 list aggregate over eight and three-fourths million feet. Fifty-one 

 per cent of it was grown in Virginia and it was bought at a price 

 $2.31 less than the cost of woods shipped in from other States. The 

 demands of two establishments making plumbers' woodwork like ex- 

 terior tank linings and closet seats accounts for a large part of the white 

 oak and red oak shown in the table. This line of manufacture is of 

 considerable importance in Virginia 



The makers of washing machines for domestic uses call on the 

 cypresses and the juniper (white cedar) to serve as raw material, 

 while for wash tubs and portable wood bath tubs, juniper 

 alone met the demand. Drugget and rug poles were made from the 

 black gum and red gum and clothes pins were turned from cotton gum. 

 The success of gum clothes pins calls attention to a new wood for a 

 use long held by beech, maple, and birch. 



Dogwood croquet and duckpin balls and white ash baseball bats 

 were made in Virginia; the quantity of these woods as they appear 

 in Table 27 were for these uses. White and red oak , black 

 walnut, and red gum served for the exterior work of reed organs. 

 The action and many interior parts were made from sugar maple, 

 yellow poplar, sycamore, red gum, and white pine. 



Silo makers reported only two woods for silo staves, longleaf 

 yellow pine, and white pine. Sugar maple alone went into the wood 

 parts of cider and wine presses. 



Virginia consumes more wood than any other State for the 

 manufacturing of porch and Venetian blinds. From the standpoint 

 of wood utilization this is a most important industry. Twenty-four 

 woods were used of which all but the White pine, spruce, yellow poplar, 

 and silverleaf maple were high-grade expensive cabinet woods. A 

 number of them were foreign woods including silver ava and Philip- 

 pine walnut which so far have appeared in the wood-using report 

 of no other State 



