DIVISION OP FORESTRY. 



18B 



these farms was $65,327,107, or 84 per cent, of the cost for the United 

 States. The average cost per acre was 27.3 cents. 



Xow if this -whole section was under the operation of the " stock law" 

 the annual saving in timber, time, and money would be immense, while 

 rl'.c advantage to the young growth in the forest would be incalcuhible. 

 For, next to forest fires, hogs, cattle, and sheep are most destructive to 

 young forest trees. 



For example and comparison in the cost of the two methods, take the 

 county of Mecklenburg, in Iforth Carolina. This county has had the 

 ''stock law " in force fof many years. According to the census reports 

 it had 140,243 acres in farms. The cost of building and repairing fences 

 in 1879 was $6,215, an average of 4.3 cents per acre. If, therefore, the 

 cost of building and repairing the fences on farms where the " stock 

 law" is in force is 4.3 cents per acre, then at the same rate for the 

 239,147,203 acres in farms lying east of the 95th meridian the cost 

 would be only $10,283,329, an annual saving of $55,043,778, or an av- 

 erage of $15.59 to each farm. 



EXPORTS AND IMPORTS OF WOOD. 



[From the Bureau of Statistics.] 



Exports of wood, and manufactures of; also fircxcood, saiccd lumler, shooJcs, sMngles, 

 staves, and headings, and timber hewed, sawed, or in logs, cj-c, years ending June 30, 

 1884 and 1885. 



18S4. 



1885. 



Articles mannfactnred in •which -wood is the chief material 



Agricultural injplement s 



Bark, and extract of, for tanning 



Billiard and pool tables, and parts of 



Carriages aud horse cars, and parts of..............^ 



Cars, passenger and freight , 



Matches ~» 



Musical instruments 



Naval stores, tar, pitch, turpentine... .-. 



Spirits of torpentine 



Total. 



275, 128 

 443,250 

 292, 851 

 55,631 

 582, 459 

 444,039 

 IOC, 809 

 079, 118 

 119, 200 

 885, 500 



$10, 446, 



2, 5C1, 



346, 



49, 



1, 495, 



369, 



69, 



941, 



2, 294, 



2, 690, 



442 

 119 

 218 

 709 

 475 

 053 

 840 

 344 

 503 

 231 



39, 283, 985 



*30, 263, 994 



• Showing a decrease for the year ended June 30, 1885, of $9,019,991. 



Statement shoicing tJie value of wood, and manufactures of, imported into the Uniled Slates 

 years ending June 30, from 1670 to le8o, inclusive. 



Tears. 



Free of duty. 



Dutiable. 



Dutv. 



1870. 

 1871. 

 1872. 

 UH73 . 

 1374. 

 's-75. 

 1S7C. 

 1-^77. 

 Iji78 . 

 L->79 . 

 :880. 

 1881. 

 1882. 

 1883. 

 1S84. 

 1885. 



$718, 800 

 1, 335, 096 



1, 322, 220 

 2, 114, 147 

 2, 357, 733 



2, 052, 072 

 1, 445, 818 

 1, 352, 908 

 1, 543, 847 



1, 877, 4S8 



2, 985, G04 



3, 057, 343 

 4, 494, 506 



4, 565, OM 

 4, 353, 849 

 3, 520, 021 



$9, 121, 

 9, 053, 

 9, 310, 



11, 218, 

 8, 372, 

 5, 757, 

 4, 725, 

 3, 908, 

 3, 782, 

 3, 978, 

 6, 159, 

 7, 490, 



8, 967, 



9, 530, 

 9,387, 

 0, 103, 



$1, 976. 



1, 984, 



2, 08S. 

 2, 14.S. 

 1, .550, 

 1, 114. 



985, 

 8li5, 

 849, 

 9;i3. 



1, snc, 



1, 5;!G. 

 1. C'JU, 

 1. 703, 

 1, 609, 



ono 

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KOTB.— Included in the "free of duty" list for 1884, are 1,932,674 railroad ties, vjilncd at $382,718.86. 

 In 1882 the imports of paper pulp, mostly -n-ood, amounted to 1,320,383 pounds; in 1883 to 2,002,290 

 pounds, aad iu 1881 to 16,7SO,40Q poundjs. 



