. Bulletin. Forests and forestry. 143 Table 96.—Wood for Manual Training Practice, year ending June, 1912. Kind of Wood. Quantity. GroTTD in Pennsyl- , vanla. Grown Out of Penn- eylvania. White pine, ... Yellow poplar, Basswood, Red oak White oak Chestnut, Sugar maple, . Cherry (black), Cypress (bald), Ash Hickory, lilack walnut, Mahogany, Beech, Sugar pine Red gum Red cedar, Hemlock, Shortleaf pine. Redwood Dogwood Total, ... 21,575 $7-2 35 ! 16,250 66 95 1 14,400 43 06 13,070 72 61 10,500 83 81 ! 7,000 64 14 3,350 50 45 1,850 1,750 63 4
. Bulletin. Forests and forestry. 143 Table 96.—Wood for Manual Training Practice, year ending June, 1912. Kind of Wood. Quantity. GroTTD in Pennsyl- , vanla. Grown Out of Penn- eylvania. White pine, ... Yellow poplar, Basswood, Red oak White oak Chestnut, Sugar maple, . Cherry (black), Cypress (bald), Ash Hickory, lilack walnut, Mahogany, Beech, Sugar pine Red gum Red cedar, Hemlock, Shortleaf pine. Redwood Dogwood Total, ... 21,575 $7-2 35 ! 16,250 66 95 1 14,400 43 06 13,070 72 61 10,500 83 81 ! 7,000 64 14 3,350 50 45 1,850 1,750 63 43 1,100 70 91 934 .97 850 .89 87 06 750 .78 134 C7 600 .62 28 33 500 .62 80 00 470 .49 72 34 400 .42 262 .27 S4 35 250 .26 40 00 5« .05 60 00 34 .04 90 00 95,945 $66 44. 16,375 51,876 44,070 MISCELLANEOUS. In soliciting information from the various manufacturers concerning the extent of their operations in the consumption of wood, the Forest Service and the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry made assurance that the data would be treated confidentially and not used in the report so as to reveal the identity of the establishments furnishing it. Whenever, therefore, fewer than three factories making similar commodities were entitled to be grouped as an industry, rather than discard the information from the report it was placed under the head "; The nearly seven and a half million feet shown as the total of the table includes considerably over five million of State-grown white pine for matches, more than 100 M feet of beech cut in the State for brewer chips, used in brew- eries to clarify beer, nearly 200 M feet of white ash, Douglas flr, soft maple, and beech for flag poles and shafts, and nearly one-half that amount consisting of spruce, hemlock, and yellow pine for tent poles. Small quan- tities of red cedar were used for oil barrel faucets, and black walnut and Circassian walnut for stocks and fore-ends of bo^ firearms and of
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