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Table 59. — Wood for Handles, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



Quantity. 



Average cost per 1,000 ft, 

 at factory. 



Total cost f. o. b. factory. 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 1 vania. 



Grown Out 

 of Penn- 

 1 sylvania. 



a 



fa 



a 



a> 

 o 



(4 



a; 

 Oh 



a 



<v 



fa 



a 



<v 



fa 





3,973,350 

 2,307,850 

 1,969,750 

 1,752,300 

 415,500 



207,750 

 195,000 

 59,000 

 50,000 

 41,200 



15,000 

 12,000 

 7,500 

 7,000 

 1,050 



327 

 230 

 100 



36.07 

 20.95 

 17.88 

 15.91 

 3.77 



1.89 

 1.77 

 .54 

 .45 

 .38 



.14 

 .11 

 .07 

 .06 

 .01 



• 

 « 



$31 97 

 19 02 



28 45 



17 31 



49 53 



18 13 



29 38 

 27 42 

 40 00 



29 73 



17 50 



30 00 



50 OO 

 54 00 

 81 90 



305 81 

 67 57 

 360 00 



$127,045 



43,897 

 56,032 

 30,412 

 20,580 



3,766 

 5,730 

 1,618 

 2,000 

 1,225 



283 

 360 

 375 

 378 

 86 



100 



16 

 36 



2,599,300 

 1,727,700 

 1,130,750 

 1,302,800 

 315,500 



205,250 



1,374,050 

 580.150 

 839,000 

 449.500 

 100,000 



2.500 

 195,000 

















59,000 

 25,000 

 41,200 



15,000 





25,000 











12.000 

 5.000 

 7,000 





2,500 







1,050 





327 

 230 

 100 











Total 





11,014,907 



100.00 



$26 68 



$293,919 



7,425,050 



3,589.857 





♦Less than 1-100 of 1 per cent. 



LAUNDRY APPLIANCES. 



The fourteen woods demanded by the Pennsylvania manufacturers for mak- 

 ing laundry accessories are listed in Table 60 following and they aggregate 

 a cut of over nine million feet. Four woods, sugar maple, beech, birch, and 

 yellow poplar, contributed nearly 70 per cent, of the total. Of these sugar 

 maple is the most important, in quantity furnishing more than one-half of 

 the entire demand. Pour woods were cut entirely outside of the State but 

 nearly three-fourths of the aggregate employed grew in Pennsylvania, show- 

 ing to what extent this industry is dependent upon the forest resources of 

 the State and why manufacturers should be interested in the movement to 

 protect and improve the forests. 



Clothespins are the smallest commodity grouped under this heading but 

 they are not the least important as more wood is used for their manufacture 

 than for any other laundry product. Over four million feet is the amount 

 annually required. Fine grained beech and sugar maple in nearly equal quan- 

 tities were the principal woods used. The other kinds include birch and 

 yellow poplar. The last named and maple also are used for making clip 

 pins , which are two wooden scales held together by a wire spring. The woods 

 used in Pennsylvania as clothespin material are the same as those used in 

 other states except in Virginia where the manufacturers report black gum, 

 both the water gum and cotton gum varieties, which in those parts are in- 

 discriminately called black gum. Three processes are necessary In the manu- 

 facture of clothespins, (1) the rough billets are turned to proper form, (2) 

 they are put through another machine which slits them, (3) they are Anally 

 consigned into revolving cylinders to be tumbled or smoothed by abrasion. 



