BEECH - COMMERCIAL WOOD Beech (Fagus atropunicea) is a moderately hard, strong, heavy hardwood that has a wide range of usefulness for many purposes. While the reports indicate a larger consumption of beech in the manufacture of boxes and crates than in any other industry, a large amount is used in general mill work, including flooring and finishing, and for furniture and fixtures, for which purposes the hardness and wearresisting qualities of beech are especially desirable.
Table 70 Factory Uses of Beech Purpose Per Cent Boxes and Crates 28 Mill Work 21 Furniture and Fixtures 18 Handles 6 Woodenware and Novelties 5 Laundry Appliances 3 Brushes 2 Vehicles 2 Agricultural Implements 2 Musical Instruments 1 Spools and Bobbins 1 Toys 1 Playground Equipment 1 Whips, Canes, etc. 1 Saddles and Hames 1 Other Uses 7 Total 100 A still better idea of the varied uses of beech is obtained from the following partial list of articles into the manufacture of which this wood enters : Agricultural implements Brushes Auto-seat frames Built-up panels Balls Bungs Barber chairs Butcher blocks Baseball bats Butter dishes Baskets Butter tubs Beds (folding) Cable reels Boats Candy pails Bobbins Cars Boxes Chair bottoms Brick molds Chair rods Broom handles Cheese boxes Churns Printers' cabinets Cider mills Pulleys Clocks Pumphandles Clothes pins Pump buckets Coat hangers Refrigerators Coops Rims (bicycle) Crating Rope reels Dowels Sash Drafting tables Sectional bookcases Electrotype plates Show cases Faucets Skates Filing cabinets Sounding boards Fixtures Spindles Furniture Spools Hames Stanchions Handles Staves Hand sleds Stepladders Interior finish Tables Ironing boards Tie plugs Ladders Toys Lawn swings Trunks Measures Tubs Musical instruments Vehicles Mouse traps Wardrobes Neck yokes Washing machines Novelties Washboards Pails Weighing machines Panels Wheelbarrows Piano cases Window screens Pipe organs Woodenware Plane stocks