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Table 27. — Consumption of Basswood, year ending June, 1912. 















Grown in 



Grown Out 





Quantity. 







o 



Pennsyl- 



of Penn- 











i 





vania. 



sylvania. 











i-H 

















(4 



0) 



X! 















o< 









Industry. 











© 



















a 







S 







p 



IB 



8 



B 





xi 





0 



n 













Feet 





Per . 



0) +J 



(> 03 



0 



J Ota 



Feet, 



Feet! 



Furniture 



lioxes and crates, packing, 



Planing mill products 



Toys, 



Trunks and valises, 



Woodenware and novelties, 



Frames and moulding, picture,.. 



Excelsior, 



Boxes, cigar, 



Vehicles and vehicle parts, 



Laundry appliances 



Dairymen's, poulterers' and api- 

 arists' supplies, 



Car construction, 



Ladders 



Instruments, musical, 



Fixtures, 



Baskets, fruit and vegetable,.. 



Ship and boat building 



Agricultural implements, 



Brushes, 



Handles, 



Pulleys and conveyors, 



Rollers and poles 



Boot and shoe findings, 



Chairs and chair stock, 



Refrigerators and kitchen cab- 

 inets, 



Manual training practice 

 (sloyd), 



Whips, canes, and umbrella 

 sticks, 



Machine construction, 



Clocks 



Machinery and apparatus, elec- 

 trical, 



Total, 



3,945,400 

 2,936,400 

 2,738,576 

 1,404,000 

 1,374.500 



21.10 

 15.70 

 14.65 

 7.51 

 7.35 



$35 13 

 16 93 

 30 97 

 40 80 

 27 80 



$138,592 

 49,708 

 84,811 

 57,286 

 38,209 



944.000 

 yuz, uuu 

 749,000 

 495,000 

 477,850 



5.05 



4.00 



2.65 

 2.55 



24 26 

 23 09 

 13 77 

 64 95 

 30 10 



22,905 

 20 825 

 10^315 

 32,150 

 14,384 



437,000 



2.34 



32 52 



14,210 



o t If, UvU 



360,010 

 275,000 

 271,500 



1.98 

 1.96 

 1.47 

 1.45 



18 00 

 40 74 

 29 18 

 42 36 



6 660 

 14^911 



8,025 

 11,500 



269,100 

 220,000 

 150,000 

 80,000 

 42, 300 



1.44 

 1.18 

 .80 

 .43 

 .22 



33 92 

 20 18 

 16 00 

 31 06 



34 96 



9,128 

 4,440 

 2,400 

 2,485 

 1,479 



41,200 

 40,000 



37,500 

 35,500 

 33,000 



.22 

 .21 

 .20 

 .19 

 .18 



29 73 

 20 00 

 20 00 

 50 73 

 22 12 



1,225 

 800 

 750 



1,801 

 730 



21,600 



.12 



31 11 



672 



14,400 



.08 



43 06 



590 



12,500 

 8,500 

 5,000 



.07 

 .04 

 .03 



32 48 

 36 47 

 60 00 



400 

 310 

 300 



2,000 



.01 



55 60 



111 



18,698,836 



100.00 



$29 53 



$552,118 



1,105,400 

 1,324,400 

 1,396,900 

 560,000 

 754,500 



228,500 

 352,000 

 749,000 



258,500 

 108.500 



140,214 

 150,000 

 11,000 



176,100 

 220,000 

 150,000 

 30,000 

 42,300 



41,200 

 40,000 

 37.500 

 18,000 

 25.000 



1,600 

 7,650 



5,000 

 500 



7,933,764 



BIRCHES. 



Three species of birch are of commercial importance in Pennsylvania. They 

 are sweet or cherry birch, in Pennsylvania often called black birch (Betula 

 lenta) , well distributed throughout the State; yellow birch (Betula lutea) , 

 found mainly on altitudes associated with beech, maple, ash, and elm; and 

 that called red or river birch (Betula nigra), of little commercial impor- 

 tance, inhabiting the banks of streams and rivers in all parts of the State. 

 In 1912, the cut of birch in Pennsylvania exceeded by nearly 8,000,000 feet the 

 quantity of State-grown lumber reported by the manufacturers, these fac- 

 tories drawing forty-three per cent, of their requirements from the producing 

 regions of other States, principally New York and Vermont. Sweet birch 

 lumber can be identified by the fact that its sapwood is nearly white and its 

 heartwood red or nearly black. It is a fine wood, hard and strong, easily 

 worked, takes a high polish, due, it is claimed, to the bright lining of the 

 wood cells, and takes stains readily, which allows its use in imitation of more 



