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Table 95. — Wood for Rollers and Curtain Poles, year ending June, 1912. 



Kind of Wood. 



Quantity. 



(ii-owii in 

 Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



Bass wood, .. 

 Sugar maple. 

 White oak, . 



Beecli, 



Birch , 



Ash 



Black ffi-.m, . 



Hickory 



Ri'dwodd, ... 

 Yellow jioplar 



Total, .. 



37,500 



29.86 



$20 00 



$750 



27,425 



21.84 



16 59 



455 



19,000 



15.13 



16 63 



316 



12,000 



9.56 



14 00 



168 



12,000 



9.56 



14 00 



168 



6,150 



4.90 



32 68 



201 



6,000 



4. 78 



20 00 



120 



2,500 



1.99 



60 00 



150 



2,0fl0 



1..59 



45 00 



90 



1,000 



.79 



65 00 



65 



125,575 



100.00 



. $19 77 



$2,483 



37,500 

 27,000 

 19,000 

 12,000, 

 12,000 



5,000 



' ' 2,500 



115,000 



MANUAL TRAINING PRACTICE. 

 Improved systems of public school education today endeavor to give not 

 only a thorough grounding in the usual elementary subjects but also offer op- 

 portunities to acquire the fundamentals of various artisan trades by methods 

 of practical work in the laboratory, the shop, or the field. These specialized 

 schools or departments are known as "Manual Training" and in connection 

 with the excellent system of public education in Pennsylvania there has been 

 established a large number of them throughout the State. They offer instruc- 

 tion in a diversity of practical courses. Important among these is wood craft. 

 Shops equipped with tools of all kinds and with wood-working machinery af- 

 ford training in the making of many kinds of commodities and an insight into 

 all lines and processes of wood-working. Woods that are soft and possess 

 properties to work easily are naturally the kinds in greatest demand. That 

 white pine, yellow poplar, and basswood head the list in Table 96, therefore, 

 is not surprising, but that so small amounts of yellow pine and hemlock are 

 employed, these being the cheapest woods, is interesting, especially as these 

 woods are important in many wood manufacturing industries. If both the 

 red and white oaks had been compiled under one heading, oak, this wood 

 would have been first in the table. Of the twenty species used, mahogany is 

 the highest priced and beech the lowest. 



