Millions upon millions of thetiny wooden slivers are turned outevery year from American factoriesalone, and oit top of this tremendousoutput come importations from Portugal and Japan and other countriesnearly as large as the domestic product.Most of the American toothpickscome from Franklin county, in Maine,near the forest home of the whitebirch, out of which 95 per cent of thedomestic toothpicks