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The Annual Consumption per Capita of Lumber fob all Puri'oses • 



manufactured articles. The table indicates that the per capita consump- 

 tion of lumber on the farm for construction purposes exceeds by 8fJ.5 

 per cent that required for the state as a whole. The rapidly growing 

 Chicago district exceeds this average by only 3.2 per cent, while the re- 

 mainder of the state's population consiunes but 73.56 per cent of the 

 average for building purposes and only 39.4-1 per cent as much as is 

 required per capita by the farm population. These data also show that 

 the rate of consumption of wood in the wood-using industries in the 

 Chicago district exceeds by 68.83 per cent the rate for towns outside of 

 Chicago and by 46.67 per cent the rate for the entire state. Undoubtedly 

 the greatest economic burden resulting from the depletion of the supply 

 of virgin timber as a source of lumber will fall on the farmer, by in- 

 creasing his cost of building ; and on the Chicago district, by diminish- 

 ing its wood-using industries. 



Production of Wood in Illinois f 



Of the total of wood products required to meet the needs of Illi- 

 nois, the woodlands of the state, 2,863,764 acres in extent, or 44.16 per 

 cent of the minimum required area, yielded but 56,900,000 board feet 

 of lumber, or 2.379 per cent of that consumed. In other products 

 106,318,627 cubic feet was harvested within the state, amounting to 

 63.118 per cent of the total consumed. But of these remaining wood 



* See Appendix, Note 12. 



t For foot-note, see next page. 



