544 Forestry Quarterly 



The reported cut of lath in 1915 was 2,745,134,000 and is 

 estimated that the total cut was 3,250,000,000. The reported 

 cut of shingles was 8,459,378,000 and the estimated total cut 

 9,500,000,000. 



The average 1915 value of each principal kind of lumber re- 

 ported by the mills is also given. The figures are preliminary 

 rounded values, but are based on the data reported by mills in 

 the principal States producing each kind of lumber, and are there- 

 fore close to the final averages. 



LT- J r iir J M ft. M ft. PerM 



Kind of Wood. Probable Total Reported Value 



Yellow pine 14,700,000 12,177,335 $12.50 



Douglas fir 4,431,249 4,121,897 10.50 



Oak 2,970,000 2,070,444 19.00 



White pine 2,700,000 2,291,480 18.00 



Hemlock 2,275,000 2,026,460 13.00 



Spruce 1,400,000 1,193,985 16.50 



Western pine 1,293,985 1,252,244 14.50 



Cypress 1,100,000 926,758 20.00 



Maple 900,000 771,223 15.00 



Red gum 655,000 478,099 12.50 



Chestnut 490,000 399,473 16.00 



Yellow poplar 464,000 377,386 22.50 



Redwood 420.294 418,824 13.50 



Cedar 420,000 352,482 15.50 



Birch 415,000 355,328 16.50 



Larch 375,000 348,428 11.00 



Beech 360,000 303,835 14.00 



Basswood 260,000 207,607 19.00 



Elm 210,000 177,748 17.00 



Ash 190,000 159,910 22.50 



Cottonwood 180,000 138,282 17.50 



Tupelo 170,000 153,001 12.00 



White fir 125,048 121,653 11.00 



Sugar pine 117,701 115,109 



Hickory 100,000 86,015 23.50 



Balsam fir 100,000 71,358 14.00 



Walnut 90,000 €5,144 



Lodgepole pine 26,486 22,672 13.00 



Sycamore 25,000 19,729 14.00 



All other kinds 49,531 37,826 



Total 37,013,294 31,241,734 



A tree-planting machine was patented by Mr. Femow in 1887. 

 It never was manufactured because nobody wanted to plant 20,000 

 trees in a day on plow ground. Last fall, Mr. T, A. Hoverstad, 

 Agricultural Commissioner of the Minneapolis, St. Patil and Sault 

 Sainte Marie Railway Company, having a large number of trees to 

 plant along the right of way, constructed such a machine (as it 

 described in the Report of Chief of the Forestry Division of she 



