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products, 76,061,600 cubic feet is in the form of cordwood or fuel wood 

 which is but a very small fraction of the total fuel consumption for the 

 state, though it furnishes 25.59 per cent of fuel burned on farms. Of 

 the remainder, totaHng 02,381,388 feet, a quantity equal to 30,257,027 

 cubic feet or 32.75 per cent is grown in the state. Illinois therefore has 

 to import over 97.6 per cent of its lumber and 65 per cent of wood 

 used in industry in forms other than cordwood. 



Total Production of Wood in Ilunois for ax Average Year 



Product 



1. Cordwood 



2. Mine timbers 



3. Posts 



4. Lumber . . . . 



5. Cross-ties . . 



6. Veneer logs 



7. Piling 



8. Cooperage stock 



Cord 



80 cu. ft. 



Cu. ft. 



Post 



.8 cu. ft. 



Bd. Ft. 



Tie 



Bd. Ft. 



log scale 



1/6 cu. ft. 



Pile 



22.3 cu. ft. 



Cu. ft. 



950,770 



11.960,076 

 10,767,752 



56,900.000 



1,021.888 



24,367,000 



40,474 

 375,989 



Quantity in Per cent of 

 cu. ft. total 



Total 



Exclusive of lumber 



Exclusive of cordwood and lumber. 



76.061,600 



11,960,076 

 8.614.202 



9,333,333 

 4,343,024 

 4,061,166 



902,570 

 375,989 



115.651.960 



106,318.627 



30,257,027 



65.768 



10.342 

 7.448 



8.070 

 3.756 

 3.511 



.780 

 .325 



100.00 



BASIS OF THE TOT.VL-PRODrCTION FIGURES 



1. Total woodland X .332 cord — average derived from 100 per cent of 440 

 wood-lot owners* replies to questionnaire. 



2. 62.3 per cent of total consumption, as indicated by statements in reply to 

 mining questionnaire. 



3. Total woodland X 3.76 po.=;ts — average derived from 100 per cent of 440 

 wood-lot owners' replies to questionnaire. 



4. Bulletin 1119. U. S. Department of Agriculture, making full allowance for 

 unrecorded customs-mills. 



5. Average total production estimated from replies to railroad questionnaire 

 —1021 and 1922. 



C. U. S. Census data. 1919 — statistics for Illinois. 



7. Since the average length of piling from a large number of pieces was found 

 to be 36.27 feet, the average contents was placed at 22.3 cubic feet. The number 

 of cubic feet produced in Illinois was derived from figures in the books of piling 

 contractors slunving the numbrr of lineal feet of piling which was secured in the 

 state, this amounting to between 37 and 38 per cent of the total consumption of 

 piling. 



8. U. S. Census data, 1919, converted into cubic feet by using the V. S. Forest 

 Service equivalent. 



