(Prom the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 



San Francisco Office) 



ANNUAL CONSUMPTION OF FOOD BY THE 

 WOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES 



Statistic have been complied by the Forest Service 

 which show for the first time precisely how the lumber produced 

 in this country is utilized. About 45 billion feet of lumber of 

 all kinds is the annual production in the United States; of this 

 nearly 25 billion feet, board measure, are further manufactured, 

 the other portion remaining for rough construction lumber and for 

 similar purposes. This is exclusive of material which reaches 

 its final use in the form of fuel, railroad ties, posts, poles, 

 pulpwood, cooperage, wood distillates, and the barks and extracts 

 demanded by the tanning industry. 



The work of collecting and compiling the figures ex- 

 tended over a considerable period and was carried rut state by 

 state ; but as one full year was made the basis of statistics in 

 each state, the total is a fair average of the use of lumber in 

 further manufacture in the who&e country. Between 50 and 60 per 

 cent of the lumber produced is subject to further manufacture. 

 In preparing the figures in this way, however, it should be re- 

 membered that considerable material reaches shops and factories 

 in the form rf logs, bolts, and billets without having passed 

 through sawmills: and while this material is included in these 



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