The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-11-25
The Wood Using Industries OF
MARYLAND.

Wood-Using Industries Of Maryland,
| by HUI Maxwell, expert United States
Forest Service, with a chapter on Mary
Hands Lumber and Timber Cut and the
Timber Supply, BY F. w. Besley, State
Forester.
The Bureau Of the Census, in co-opera-
ton with the United States Forest Service,
complies and publishes statistics annually
showing the output OF sawmills by States
and for the whole country. The cut 10
Maryland in 1908 was I6s. $4,000 feet.
board measure, reported by 3s4 sawmills.
This was one-half Of per cent Of the
total cut in The United States for that year,
and was a falling off of more than 81 per
cent from Maryland's lumber cur for
1907. The decline was general though
out the country in that year, and for the
United States was I711zper cent.
Heretofore, lumber has. not been very
carefully followed after leaving the saw.
to ascertain whit becomes OF it, what new
forms are given it, and into what COM
modities il enters. Il has been known in
a general way that some of it is used in
its rough form, while some passes through
additional processes Of manufacture. The
present studies of the wood-using indus
tries of Maryland was undertaken to sup
ply information concerning the lumber
| which is not used in its rough form. The
work has been done by the United States
Forest Service in cooperation with the
State of Maryland
Statistics thus collected and published
are expected to be useful to both the
growers and manufacturers Of wood. I'll
| is shown what part Of the total demand,
and the demand for each species, is met
by forests and woodlots of the State, and
what part is supplied from without The
kinds of wood demanded by the various
industries are shown, together with the
quantity Of each species used. the prices
paid at the factories. aud into what COM
modify each wood is manufactured. With
this information before them. the woodlot
owners who are looking to the future can
determine what kinds of timber promise
best returns, and they can give preference
to those kinds. Owners Of timber can
form an intelligent opinion as TO where
the best markets may be found for what
they have to offer.
Maryland manufacturers converted
2s4. 346.sos feet of rough lumber into
finished products in 1909. These figures
do not show the total quantity Of wood of
all kinds and for all purposes used in the
State, perhaps not halfsof it. They deal
only with that portion of the cut of saw
mills which, after it leaves the saw, is
further worked by machinery, or. at least
by the expenditure of considerable labor
upon it before it takes its final form.
OF the ifty-four woods reported by the
Maryland manufacturers, twenty-seven
were supplied wholly or in part by the
State, while the country at large and the
world were drawn upon for the twenty
seven others.
The State produces two woods in suffi-
Gent amounts to meetthe requirements of
its manufacturers. These are locust and
dogwood. They are not timber trees OF
first importance, yet they are Of consider
able value in Maryland.
Maryland manufacturers put more lum-
Der into boxes and crates than into any
other industry, and if interior finish for
houses is excluded. the quantity required
/ for crates and boxes exceeds the COM.
bined demand for all other industries that
manufacture wood.
Seventeen kinds Of wood are used by
the box makers of Maryland. who con-
sumo I36. 600 900 feet year or nearly 4s
per cent Of all the wood demanded by the
manufacturers Of the State for all pur-
poses. Loblolly pine heads the list in
quantity and cost, and scrub pine is
second with I7,ooo, 900 feet.
/ "A large portion Of the demand for boxes
comes from the fruit and vegetable grow
ers in the eastern partof the State.
Eleven per cent of all the wood manu-
featured into interior finish grew in Mary
land. and the homegrown constituted 81
per cent of the total value.
Lumber for furniture-making was third
on the list in Maryland in quantity and
cost.
Cecil county stands thirteenth in the
list of fifteen counties of the State that
manufacture over 100000 feet for various
purposes. The quantity Of wood manu-
featured in this county is 100000 feet.
which cost at the factory 500. 900.