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One Pennsylvania factory employs constant¬ 
ly 22 men and 14 teams to cut and haul maple 
logs for the manufacture of umbrella sticks, 
selling at $6 to $18 a gross. The annual con¬ 
sumption of common umbrella sticks is placed 
at 8,000,000, mostly of maple. 
One of the steadiest and most profitable 
wood-working industries is the manufacture 
of washboards. A great deal of our hard 
woods could be profitably used in this manu¬ 
facture, and it is strange that more attention 
is not given to it. 
Clothes pins are a very extensive and profit¬ 
able manufacture in Michigan, where five fac¬ 
tories are reported. One New York firm often 
takes 20 car loads at a time. 
Even the wooden shoe, so frequently seen in 
France and eastern Germany and Russia, has 
found not only its way into this country, but 
its manufacture requires even the aid of steam- 
power to supply the demand. Butternut fur¬ 
nishes the desirable material. 
The shingle product of Michigan alone re¬ 
quired in 1887 over 20,000,000 cubic feet of 
wood, and that of the whole country probably 
four times as much. 
A New Hampshire firm, one of ten in the 
country, makes 40,000 bushels of shoe-pegs, 
using birch and maple, and 100,000 cords are 
said to be converted annually into this shape. 
There are three tooth-pick factories iu the 
country, one reported to consume 10,000 cords j 
of wood annually, averaging 5,000 boxes of 
70,000 pieces each 4 daily. 
Hundreds of thousands of skewers are used 
annually. They are made by machinery, re¬ 
quiring good-sized logs to work economically, 
the machine being capable of making 200,000 
skewers a day. 
Out of a dozen or more match factories, one I 
reports its need of raw material as 4,000,000 
feet of best white pine. 
Three factories of excelsior, in Grand Rap¬ 
ids, Mich., out of about a dozen in the State, 
produced last year 6,000 tons of excelsior, con¬ 
suming nearly 20,000 cords of bass-wood ; the 
material being largely employed in packing, a 
use unthought of a few years ago. 
Transactions of the Massachusetts I 
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This volume of nearly 200 pages is sent by 
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