. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 8-9. Forests and forestry. 76 Table 51.âWood for Chairs, year ending June, 1912. V4 t>^ Grown in Grown Oat Quantity. s Pennsyl- of Penn- s -w u vania. sylvania. â¢> 04 . a , Kind of Wood. O S a 0) ^ â â¢-> a ⢠a U3 0) 09*-" A A â «-> 9) 4) 5 o 1 -M 01 b cu «< H Ec h Beecli, White elm Sugar maple, Red gum, Red oak, White oak Birch Rod and silver maple. Sycamore, Chestnut, Mahogany, Ash Black walnut Basswood Yellow poplar, Hickory Circassian walnut, .. Total 8,420,000 6, ,100 4,326,000 2,»97,200 2,228,800 9


. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Department of Forestry), no. 8-9. Forests and forestry. 76 Table 51.âWood for Chairs, year ending June, 1912. V4 t>^ Grown in Grown Oat Quantity. s Pennsyl- of Penn- s -w u vania. sylvania. â¢> 04 . a , Kind of Wood. O S a 0) ^ â â¢-> a ⢠a U3 0) 09*-" A A â «-> 9) 4) 5 o 1 -M 01 b cu «< H Ec h Beecli, White elm Sugar maple, Red gum, Red oak, White oak Birch Rod and silver maple. Sycamore, Chestnut, Mahogany, Ash Black walnut Basswood Yellow poplar, Hickory Circassian walnut, .. Total 8,420,000 6, ,100 4,326,000 2,»97,200 2,228,800 992,400 918,500 500,000 480,000 461,800 104,300 50,000 24,600 15,000 3,800 33,117,000 $17 21 26 76 18 54 25 97 33 96 42 10 30 05 28 17 25 00 17 71 110 11 .32 24 54 .15 66 08 .01 22 12 .07 38 05 .05 17 20 .01 200 OO $25 80 $144,945 166,243 112,328 101,785 93,837 29,824 25,876 12,500 8,499 2,559 8,304 730 936 258 760 $854,412 7,295,000 62,000 4,746,500 'ii666,'566 281,800 583,500 155,000 ""95,066 87,801) 26,00(' 75,000 14,406,600 1,125,000 6,151,500 601,600 4,326,000 1,930,700 1,947,000 408,900 500,000 385,000 461,800 67,000 6,000 8,800 ,400 VEHICLES AND VEHICLE PARTS. The statistics presented in Table 52 represent the wood used both for motor and horse drawn vehicles. Though there is considerable material used in the manufacture of motor cars including both pleasure cars and commercial trucks, fully 90 per cent, of the material reported went into the latter. The rapid growth of the automobile industry has greatly Increased the demand for the vehicle woods, but, according to reports, has not made a correspond- ing reduction in the demand for horse drawn vehicles. In fact a number of Pennsylvania manufacturers, especially wagon makers, remarked upon the increased production of horse drawn vehicles in the last five years; and those that formerly


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