UTILIZATION OF ASH. 



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methods of preventing losses from them through proper handling of 

 logs and lumber. In addition to its publications on the subject, the 

 Bureau of Entomology will supply information by correspondence 

 when special cases are reported to it. 



UTILIZATION BY INDUSTRIES. 



Practically all of the cut of ash lumber, as given in the United 

 States census reports, is consumed in different wood-using industries. 

 The high value and the scarcity of the wood preclude the use of 

 ash lumber in general construction work. 



The uses to which ash is put may be conveniently grouped by the 

 industries. This is done in Table 12, which indicates for each indus- 

 try the amount of ash material and the proportion of the total that 

 is used, the average price paid for material delivered at the factory, 

 snd the total cost of material. In round numbers, 22 per cent of the 

 ash used in industries goes into handles; 20 per cent into butter-tub 

 staves and headings; 15 per cent into vehicles, including automo- 

 biles; 7 per cent into planing-mill products; 6 per cent each into 

 refrigerators and kitchen cabinets, furniture (including chairs and 

 chair stock), and car construction; 3 per cent into boxes and crates, 

 agricultural implements, and ships and boats (chiefly oars) ; 1 per 

 cent each into sporting and athletic goods, fixtures, musical instru- 

 ments, woodenware and novelties, and hames; and from one-quarter 

 to one-half of 1 per cent into machine construction, pumps, sucker 

 rods, to3^s, and tariks. A total of about 1 per cent of the ash used 

 goes into plmnbers' woodwork, trunks, pulleys and conveyors, picker 

 sticks, printing materials, picture frames and molding, and carpet 

 sweepers. The remainder, comprising less than one-half of 1 per 

 cent, goes into playground equipment, rollers for shades and maps, 

 elevators, professional and scientific instruments, laundry appli- 

 ances, machinery and electrical apparatus, mine equipment, brushes, 

 patterns and flasks (for foundry work), Avhips, canes, umbrella 

 sticks, dowels, caskets and coffins, butcher's blocks, aeroplane frames 

 and propellers, weighing apparatus, and gates and fencing. 



