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number of staves procured from a cubic cord of timber of about 

 100 staves to the cord, which is equal to a 15 per cent reduction. 

 The average number of whiskey staves secured from mill run 

 timber to-day is 26 per cent as compared with 45 per cent ten 

 years ago, which shows a loss of 42 per cent." 



The selling price during this period has increased only 40 per 

 cent, and hence is decidedly disproportionate. Counting back 

 three years, one manufacturer reckons the advance in the cost of 

 manufacturing staves at 25 to 33 per cent. A further increase 

 is to be expected since the future supplies of timber are limited. 



Tight Slave Meet. Barrel and Box, January 1906, pp. 58-59. 



The reports of the hardwood cut in the 



Hardwood Central States, which are much more com- 



Cut plete than in previous years, show a total 



1905 of 1,580,570,000 board feet. Cypress, 



which has been wrongly classified as a 



hardwood, has a reported cut of 561,853,000 feet, in which 



Louisiana ranks first with a cut of 475,690,000. Necessarily all 



manufacturers were not heard from, so these reports furnish only 



a most general criterion. 



Deducting the Cypress cut, the respective States rank as 

 follows : 



Arkansas 399,281,000 board feet 



Tennessee 342,452,000 " 



Kentucky 325,451,000 " 



Ohio 189,864,000 " 



Indiana 156,588,000 " 



Mississippi 134,671,000 " 



Louisiana 80,422,000 " 



The production of hemlock in Michigan and Wisconsin for the 

 last six years is given at : 



1900 1,766,288,000 1903 1,334,444,000 



1901 1,264,943,000 1904 1,291,169,000 



1902 1,277,814,000 1905 1,195,073,000 



It is probable that the production will steadily decrease after 

 the record year of 1903. Hemlock in Michigan and Wisconsin 

 grows for the most part upon agricultural land and will eventually 

 largely disappear. The variation in the price of the product for 



