Larch 7,470,300 



Douglas Fir 7,349,840 



Noble Fir 6,653,500 



Magnolia 5,449,000 



Buckeye 3,174,028 



White Fir 3,142,080 



Cedar 2,512,150 



Redwood 2,439,500 



Red Fir 1,328,330 



Hickory 767,920 



Butternut 578,000 



Cucumber 524,000 



Alpine Fir 500,000 



Hackberry 315,000 



Cherry 170,500 



Black Walnut 163,250 



Silver Bell Tree 91,308 



Applewood 13,800 



Mahogany ' 13,000 



Ailanthus 5,000 



Mountain Ash 5.000 



Yucca 3;500 



Total 4,547,973,180 



White pine has long been the preferred box material, and 

 still is, where obtainable. The white pine listed in Table 2 is 

 made up of 96 per cent eastern white pine, 2 per cent Norway 

 pine, and 1 per cent each of Jack pine and western white pine. 

 In order of the quantity consumed, white pine is used to the 

 greatest extent in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, 

 Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin 

 and New Jersey. 



The sources of white pine supplies are the Lake States, 

 Canada and New England. The largest amounts of Norway pine 

 are used in Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and New Hampshire, 

 and the largest amounts of Jack pine in Wisconsin and Michigan. 

 Norway pine is lumbered principally in the Lake States and New 

 England and Jack pine in the Lake States only. Western white 

 pine is used to a small extent by box factories in Washington, 

 Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and the supply comes from these 

 States. 



The several kinds of southern yellow pine furnish almost as 

 much box material as does white p : ne. However, the single 

 species, eastern white pine, furnishes over a billion feet annually, 

 while no one kind of yellow pine furnishes over a half-billion. It 

 is not possible to tell accurately just how much of each kind of 

 yellow pine is used for boxes, but an approximate estimate is 

 loblolly 46 per cent, shoftleaf 35^ per cent, longleaf S l / 2 per cent, 

 scrub 6 per cent, and smaller proportions of Cuban, pitch and the 

 minor yellow pines. Over two-thirds of all the yellow pine manu- 



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