The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-28
MANY INDUSTRIES
 UTILIZE LUMBER
Most of Wood Used In Connecticut
 Grown Outside of State.

In spite of the substitution of met al for wood in building construction and many. manufacturing processes,
 more than 110, 100000 feet of wood is
 used annually in twenty-six indus tries in Connecticut, according to bull letin 174 of the Connecticut Agricul-
 tural Experiment Station issued in
 cooperation with the forest service
 of the United States department of az riculture and entitled "The Wood-Us- ing Industries of Connecticut" The bulletin is an exhaustive study of the wood used in Connecticut factories, boat yards and shops, and follows the wood from the sawnill through the factories. The statistics were collect ed in 1911 and cover a period of one year. The work was done by Albert H. PierSOn, StatiStician in the United States forest service in cooperation with S. N. Spring, state forester, and O. T. Swan, engineer of the office of wood utilization of the United States forest service.
 The sawmills of the state cut about 225, 100000 board feet a year. The figures for 1910 were 222,945, 1000. In spite of this relatively large cut, only 16.61 per cent. of the wood used in the factories was grown in the state. To be sure, a good deal of the lurn- Der made in the state-about one fourth in the estimate of the state forester-is utilized in rough lumber and in general construction and thus is not included in the scope of this report. The report raises the ques- ton why a larger proportion of the state-grown wood is not used by Con necticut manufacturers.
 A quarter of the wood used in wood using factories was white pine. Twen- ty per cent. was grown in Connecti- cut. Four times as much pine was used as any other wood, the figures showing a consumption of 26, ,9S8, ,15O feet. This is one of the cheaper woods, the average cost at the factor ies where it was used being $28.14 a thousand feet.
 Chestnut ranked second in the quantity of wood used and cost on the average $3 a thousand less than the white pine. Although the annual sawmill output of chestnut in the state is larger than the combined cut of all other hardwoods, two-thirds of the chestnut used in manufacturing was grown outside the state. Yellow poplar, lob1olly pine and bald cypress followed in consumption totals in the order named. The two latter are not grown at all in the state, most of the supply coming from the South. |
 The cheapest wood used in the fac | tories during the period covered by | the investigation was hem1ock, the l cost of which at the factories where | it was used averaged $14.O8 a thous- and feet. It Is used in rough work, | such as box making. The most ex- pensive wood used in the state was teak, the cost of which averaged | S287.5O a thousand board feet. This price is only few cents higher than that of Circassian walnut, the figures for which are $297.44. The only use for teak that was reported is making deck rails for boats. Eight thous- and feet of it were used.
 Black walnut was the most expen- sive native wood, it's cost averaging $S9.63 a thousand feet. Very little is grown in the state. It is used ex- tensively in making gun stocks. It Is no longer an important furniture and cabinet wood, partly because of it's scarcity, partly because of change scarcity and partly because of change