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WOOD-USING INDUSTRIES 



SUPPLEMENT 



The manufacture of slack and tight cooperage stock and paper 

 pulp in Virginia should properly be included in a study of the wood 

 using industries, because staves, hoops and heading, and pulp are 

 commodities in finished form, subject to no further manufacture, 

 and therefore, within the scope of the study. Tables representing 

 these commodities were not presented heretofore, owing to the fact 

 that the Bureau of Census in cooperation with the Forest Service 

 annually collects information concerning their production, and it was 

 deemed inexpedient to solicit similar information twice in the same year. 

 In order not to omit these important industries altogether, data was 

 taken from the Census Bulletin, reduced to the equivalent quantity 

 board measure, of forest material necessary to manufacture them and 

 compiled into tables comparable with those of the foregoing report. 

 The statistics following, therefore, are the result of computation, 

 while the tables of the report are a tabulation of data furnished by 

 manufacturers. The distinction accounts for the separation of the 

 copied information and its presentation in the supplemental chapter. 



SLACK COOPERAGE 



Table 28 below represents the quantity of material used for 

 the manufacture of staves and headings for slack barrels as reported 

 by the Virginia manufacturers for 1909. The average cost of the raw 

 material does not appear in the Census Bulletin. The prices given 

 were taken from reports of a few Virginia manufacturers incidentally 

 collected by the Forest Service agents during the field work in con- 

 nection with the wood using industry study. 



TABLE 28. SLACK COOPERAGE. 



In comparing the quantity of material used by the slack cooperage 

 manufacturers with the other industries of Virginia listed in Table 

 3, it stands third in importance. Red gum, loblolly pine, white pine, 

 shortleaf pine, cotton gum, chestnut, oak, cotton wood and yellow pop- 

 lar, were the woods used. It will be noted that the hoop 

 material is not given. The number manufactured, compared 



