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TABLE 20. Lumber production and consumption in the Lake States in 1928 



1 Data from Forest Products, 1928: Lumber, Lath and Shingles. Bureau of the Census, 1930. 



2 Figures based on compiled data in the files of the Forest Service. 



Table 21 (30) shows the statistical position of the lumber and paper 

 industries in the region in 1929. The value of the paper-industry 

 products was rated as more than twice that of the products of the 

 lumber industry. 



TABLE 21. Statistical position of lumber, pulpwood, and paper industries, Lake 



States, 1929 l 



Census of Manufactures, 1929, Industry Series. 



EXTENT TO WHICH PRIVATE FORESTRY IS BEING PRACTICED 



In the Lake States, as in the Central States, three classes of owners 

 are to be considered. The first class, the farm-woodland owners, 

 have problems very similar to those in the Central 



