2 BULLETIN 605, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The wood-using studies were intended to supplement the annual 
reports on the consumption of wood for lath, shingles, cooperage, 
veneer, pulp, distillation, poles, and ties, and these industries there- 
fore are not covered in this report. 
In the case of Louisiana, Arkansas, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, 
Washington, and Oregon, the basis for compiling the figures for 
planing-mill products differs from the general plan of including only 
planing-mill patterns, in that nearly all dressed lumber, surfaced on 
from one to four sides, is also included in the figures for these States. 
Figure 1 shows graphically the comparative amounts used by each 
important industry in each State. 
Figure 2 shows graphically the comparative amounts of each im- 
portant wood used in each State. 
Table 1 gives detailed figures by industries and shows the amount 
of each kind of wood used by each industry. 
The scope of the statistics for the industries with, titles that are 
not entirely descriptive is as follows: Planing-mill products cover 
standard patterns such as flooring, ceiling, and siding made in large 
quantities by planing mills in lumber-producing regions, while sash, 
doors, blinds, and millwork usually are made in millwork plants in 
the consuming regions. However, considerable quantities of doors 
and door stock are made in the Pacific Coast States. Boxes and 
crates cover all kinds of packing boxes and crates made of lumber 
or veneer, and also fruit and vegetable packages and baskets. Car 
construction covers wooden construction in all types of railroad and 
electric cars, as well as in locomotives and mine cars. Furniture 
includes household and office furniture, except chairs, kitchen furni- 
ture, and fixtures in business buildings. Vehicles take in horse 
vehicles, automobiles, bicycles, pushcarts, and wheelbarrows. Wood- 
enware and novelties embrace a thousand or more articles, such as 
kitchen utensils, wooden dishes, butter and cheese packages, meas- 
ures, pails, wooden novelties of all kinds, ladders, and supplies for 
dairymen, poulterers, and apiarists. Fixtures are such as show 
cases, counters, bars, and lodge and church furnishings. Shade and 
map rollers include also curtain and rug poles and Venetian blinds. 
Machine construction means wooden construction in machinery of 
all kinds. Shoe lasts, pegs, and shanks are boot and shoe findings. 
Four-sevenths of the wood used for professional and scientific instru- 
ments went for pencils, the rest for artists', photographers', and 
draftsmen's instruments, rules, and scientific apparatus. Billiard 
and pool tables, as well as gymnasium goods and all outdoor sporting 
goods, come under sporting and athletic goods. Mine equipment 
includes ventilating apparatus, brattices, breaker equipment, slope 
rollers, and sprags. Dowels are small rods used in fastening together 
furniture, fixtures, and doors. Under playground equipment come 
lawn swings and porch furniture. 
