The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-07-03
ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OF WOOD
BY THE WOOD MANuFAcT-
URiNG INDUSTRIES

first time precisely how the lumber
produced in the country is utilized
about 45 billion feet of lumber of all
kinds is the annual production in the
United States, of this nearly 25 bill
lion feet, board measure, are further
manufactured, the other portion re-
naming for rough construction lum-
Der and for similar purposes. This
is exclusive of material which reach
es its final use in the form of fuel,
railroad ties, posts, poles, pulpwood,
cooperage, wood distillates, and the
barks and extracts demanded by the
tanning industry.
The work Of collecting and compil-
ing the figures extended over a con-
siderable period and was carried out
state by state; but rs one full year
was made the basis of statistics in
each state the total is fair average
of the use of lumber in further manu-
facture in the whole country. Be-
tween so and GO per cent of the lum-
Der produced is subject to further
manufacture. In preparing the fig
ures in this way, however, it should
be remembered that considerable ma
terial reaches shops and factories in
the form of logs, bolts, and billets
without having passed through saw
mills, and while this material is in
cluded in these statistics this fact
should be remembered in comparing
statistics with those of lumber pro-
duction-
Nearly or quite 100 different woods
are used in this country under their
names, while an unknown number
find their way to shops and factories
without being identified or separately
listed, except under general names.
In quantity the softwoods, the needle
leaf or coniferous trees, are most inn
portant, but there is a greater number
of species among the hardwoods, or
broadleaf trees. Yellow pine comes
first with more than billion feet,
followed by white pine with billion
and Douglas fir with little more than
billion. 1t should be understood,
however, that the term yellow pine"
includes several species the three
most important of which are longleaf,
shortleaf and loblolly. Oak, includ-
ing all species, has nearly billion
feet, and lis the most important hard
wood. Maple comes next.
Dogwood comes about halfway
down the list with more than mil
lion board feet, and of those species
mentioned Turkish lockwood comes
last, with less than 80 thousand feet,
followed by many others too insight
ficant to list but making total of all
kinds of more than million feet.
OF the native species, laurel, holly
and yucca fall very near the foot of
the list in relative quantities used.
Fifty-five principal industries use
wood as raw material. Their rela-
tive importance is hard to indicate,
because quantity alone is not in all
cases a criterion of value of an indus
try to the community in which it is
situated, nor to the country as a
wole.
More than one-half of the total con-
sumption consists of planning mill pro-
ducts, the largest items of which are
flooring, siding, ceiling, and finishing.
the next industry, in point of quanti-
ty of wood used, is the manufacture
of boxes and crates. Nearly four times
as much wood is demanded by max
ers of boxes and crates as by the bull
ders of steam and electric cars, which
come next, and five fold the amount
that goes into furniture Vericles de-
mand surprisingly large supplies of
wood, and much of it must be of a!
high class in order to meet require
ments for frames, gears and bodies.
Chairs, listed separately from fur
niture, come after novelties and sup
plies for dairymen, poultry keepers,
and apiarists, and just before handles,
and musical instruments. About mid
way down the list comes pumps and
wood pipes. Among the products i'm
ported enough to list separately are
canes and umbrella sticks, brooms,
firearms, artificial limbs, and tobacco
pipes.
The apportionment of wood among
the various industries, grades from
planning mill products. which take
most, down to aeroplanes and dry
kilns, at the bottom of the list.
Mrs. w. d. Richey was taken quite