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(4) Upholstered furniture includes davenports, davenport beds, 
and overstuffed chairs. Here the use of alder is confined to the legs 
and parts of the framework requiring but moderate strength. 
Of the 9,653,000 board feet of alder used by the furniture industry 
in 1923, 8,228,000 feet were purchased in the form of rough lumber, 
mostly in the green condition. The remainder was produced at 
the furniture factories from purchased logs. 
CHAIRS 
In point of quantity of alder used in Oregon and Washington, 
the chair industry ranks next to the furniture industry. In 1923 
the industry in these two States used 2,410,000 feet of alder, or about 
18 per cent of the total cut, in addition to the 480,000 feet consumed 
by the furniture industry in the production of chairs. 
Fig. 6.— CHEAP-GRADE ALDER CHAIRS 
The bows, pillars, and bent-top slats are made of oak 
The total consumption of all woods by the chair industry of 
Oregon and Washington amounted in 1923 to 6,379,000 board feet, 
of which 5,804,000 feet consisted of local woods. Big-leaf maple 
leads the list of home-grown woods, the 2,661,000 feet of this wood 
exceeding the demand for red alder by 251,000 feet. Consumption 
of black cottonwood amounted to 438,000 feet, Oregon ash 125,000 
feet, Oregon white oak 95,000 feet, western birch 55,000 feet, and 
Douglas fir 20,000 feet. Of the 575,000 feet of imported woods used 
eastern oaks made up 490,000 feet. 
The chair industry uses alder chiefly in the production of what 
might be considered as standard goods, but of a cheap to medium- 
grade variety. A relatively small quantity is used in the framework 
of overstuffed chairs, which includes all grades from the poorest to 
the best. Most of the alder is used in the manufacture of the cheaper 
grades of solid-wood chairs, as kitchen, dining-room, and office 
chairs, rocking-chairs, and stools; also chair stock, including bot- 
toms, legs, and stretchers. All parts of these chairs are made of 
