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these the principal were several species of southern pine, and the gums that 

 come chiefly from Virginia and the Carolinas. The total quantity is equiva- 

 lent to 65 per cent, of the total box material used. White pine, chestnut, hem- 

 lock, yellow poplar, and heech were in quantity the principal Pennsylvania 

 woods reported, and cherry, sycamore, and butternut the only kinds re- 

 ported as entirely home grown. Considering the cut of hemlock in the State, 

 the amount used for boxes and crates was disappointing. But in this par- 

 ticular, this report should prove most useful as with the names and addresses 

 of the box makers and of those using lumber for crating the opportunity is 

 given for increasing the home market for the low grades of lumber cut in 

 the State. 



Woods are listed in the table that are rarely used for packing boxes. Their 

 appearance can be accounted for by the fact that they are for novelties which 

 are more or less fancy boxes like sewing cases, for toilet articles, utility 

 boxes, shoe polishing outfits, and those more or less ornamental used in stores 

 for keeping cutlery, jewelry, drugs, etc. 



Table 48. — Wood for Packing Boxes and Crates, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



Quantity. 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Shortleaf pine, 



White pine, 



Loblolly pine 



Yellow poplar, 



Spruce, 



Red gum 



Beech, 



Chestnut 



Sugar maple, 



Hemlock, 



Red oak, 



Pitch pine, 



Birch 



Cottonwood, 



Cotton gum 



Black gum, i 



Basswood, 



Scrub pine 



Cypress (bald) 



Silver and red maple. 



Western hemlock, 



Western yellow pine, . 



White oak, 



Longleaf pine 



White elm, 



Cork elm, , 



Norway pine, 



Yellow buckeye 



Cherry (black), 



Cucumber 



Ash, 



Sycamore, 



Butternut, 



Red cedar, 



Total 



52,719,727 

 51,583,373 

 36,173,429 

 18,576,293 

 14,648,870 



12,806,084 

 12,505,839 

 11,977,692 

 11,647,000 

 9,269,635 



7,224,377 

 6,931,800 

 5,999,000 



4,68O,O0fl 

 3,458,72.2 



3,089,800 

 2,936,400 

 2,251,400 

 1,719,250 

 l,26f,O0O 



500,000 

 500,000 

 380,500 

 241,800 

 229,800 



200,000 

 90,000 

 80,500 

 70,000 

 70,000 



54,200 

 11,603 

 5,000 

 5,000 



273,904,094 



19.25 

 18.83 

 13.21 

 6.78 

 5.35 



4.68 

 4.57 

 4.37 

 4.25 

 3.39 



2.64 

 2.53 

 2.19 

 1.71 

 1.26 



1.13 



.82 

 .63 

 .46 



.18 

 .18 

 .14 



$18 00 



21 03 

 17 51 

 17 44 



17 42 



16 68 

 16 17 

 16 04 

 16 43 

 16 85 



15 67 



16 32 

 16 76 



24 60 



14 13 



15 36 



16 93 



18 93 



16 62 

 12 38 



20 00 

 20 00 

 23 84 



22 04 



23 50 



25 00 

 20 00 



22 99 



19 00 



17 OO 



23 51 

 16 00 

 16 00 

 35 00 



$18 OO 



$949,003 

 1,084,714 

 633,493 

 323,971 

 255,211 



213,611 

 202,272 

 192,165 

 191,340 

 156,224 



113,179 

 112,519 

 100,556 

 115,135 

 48,873 



47,463 

 49,708 

 42,613 

 28,570 

 15^,685 



10,000 

 10,000 

 9,070 

 5,330 

 5,400 



5,000 

 1,800 

 1,851 

 1,330 

 1,190 



1,274 

 186 



$4,928,991 



19,390,373 



4,330,100 

 975,350 



3,735,339 

 6,275,328 

 3,282,500 

 5,36o,055 



1,801,877 

 979,600 

 2,488,500 

 40.000 



1,324,400 

 30,000 



148,000 

 "82,' 300 

 50.000 



40,000 

 70,000 



53,500 

 11.603 

 5,000 

 2,500 



51,353,325 



•Less than l-lOO of 1 per cent. 



