Show wood toothpicks skewers and reel real one ot of the first wood mills established in maine was to manufacture wooden toothpicks A small machine was invented which at present give an annual output of BOO millions ot of toothpicks they are made of the smallest pieces of waste wood the cost of the raw material being arao nothing the wooden skewers used by butchers are manufactured at the rate of a halt half million a week one mill alone turns out la in the summer season five million skew i ers and fifty million toothpicks besides a number of other articles reels tor for cotton and thread are manufactured at the rate of millions a year for this output more than fifteen million feet of whit white birch Is needed |