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sessing qualities adaptable to the special use of the brush. This accounts 

 for the long list shown in the table. There are sixteen woods, and beech 

 constitutes much the largest amount, being equal to almost half of the 

 total. This wood is one of the most plentiful hardwoods growing in Penn- 

 sylvania, having properties admirably suited for cheap brushes, and is 

 one of the factors making the industry important in the state. Maple fur- 

 nishes material for brush blocks considerably more desirable than beech, 

 and, therefore, is in demand for a better grade of brushes. It follows 

 beech in importance as to quantity but of course is higher priced. In no 

 other industry is cherry reported in so large amounts as for brushes. Its 

 low average price as compared to that paid for the same wood by other 

 classes of factories in the State is quite surprising. This industry does 

 not include altogether the production of cheap brush blocks such as are 

 used for making scrubbing, creamery, and brewery, sinks, dust pan, horse, 

 feather dusters, window, stove, carpet, paint, whitewash, and frescoing 

 brushes, and stable and street brooms, but it includes blocks for better 

 grades reruiring higher priced woods, — such as red cedar, ash, sycamore, 

 holly, red oak, black walnut, rosewood, boxwood, and other foreign woods. 

 The latter kinds are used for hair brushes, hat, jewelry, clothes, hand, 

 nail, and flesh brushes. The absence of mahogany and ebony from the 

 list of high grade brush woods is hard to explain but none of the manufac- 

 turers reported them in this State. 



Table 68. — Wood for Brushes, year ending June, 1912. 



KiBd of Wood. 



Quantity. 



Grown in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Grown Out 

 of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Beech, 



Sugar maple, 



Cherry (black) 



Yellow poplar, 



Red and silver maple, 



Sycamore, 



Birch, 



Basswood, 



Red gum, 



Red cedar 



Ash 



Boxwood (West Indian) 



Holly (American), 



Black walnut 



Red oak, 



Rosewood, 



Total 



1,&31,000 

 1,066,800 

 482,900 

 157,500 

 156,000 



71,000 

 51,000 

 42,300 

 37,000 

 23,000 



12,600 

 3,140 

 1,000 

 1.000 



250 



4,037,060 



47.83 

 26.43 

 11.96 



1.76 

 1.26 

 1.05 

 .92 

 .57 



.31 

 .08 

 .02 

 .02 

 .02 



lOO.OO 



$18 87 

 23 22 



25 43 

 40 68 

 18 96 



26 00 

 14 02 

 34 96 



27 00 

 64 57 



34 29 

 51 91 

 45 00 

 80 00 

 37 00 



300 00 



$22 34 



$36,430 

 24,772 

 12,282 

 6,407 

 2,957 



1,846 

 715 

 1,479 



432 

 163 



$90,189 



1,931,000 

 1,066,800 



482,900 

 32,500 



136,000 



51,000 

 42,300 



6,000 

 12,600 



1,000 



600 



8,761,700 



125,000 

 20,000 



71,000 



37,000 

 18.000 



8,140 

 1,000 



2S0 



275,390 



SHUTTLES, SPOOLS, AND BOBBINS. 

 The industry making bobbins, spools, shuttles and other loom appliances 

 is in quantity not so large and important in Pennsylvania as In Maine, 

 New York, and New Hampshire; but the fact that these commodities manu- 

 factured in Pennsylvania go almost entirely for use in silk mills, and only 



