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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS IT. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



To show what position we occupy as exporters of forest products the following tabulations 

 reproduced from the report of the Division of Forestry for 1887 will be of interest, placing the 

 United States fourth among the seven or eight great exporters, the general position Laving 

 hardly changed to date. Austria-Hungary should have been included in this comparison; it 

 would not, however, materially change the relations. 



Review of the limber export trade of the principal exporting countries, (a) 



Amount and prices of hewn and sawn wood (exclusioe of store* and furniture wood) imported into Great liritain, and 



proportion furnished by rarious countries, (a) 



a These two tables have been compiled partly from reports given by the Timber Trade Journal, of London, England, and partly from 

 other sources. 



As to imports, the changes from year to year are also comparatively trifling, though, of course, 

 in the direction of increase, remaining also for the last ten years below $30,000,000 and ranging 

 within $10,000,000 to $14,000,000. 



In these imports about one- fifth represents materials wliich we do not or can not produce in 

 our country such us certain cabinet woods, mahogany, ebony, etc., cork, and certain dye and 

 tanning materials. The other four-fifths is material which comes into competition with our own 

 products, and the bulk of this comes from Canada. Yet, balancing our imports with exports from 

 and to that country, we do not get more than about $10,000,000 worth from our neighbor, an 

 insignificant percentage of the one-billion dollar annual home product. This will appear from the 

 following tables: 



Talue of import* of wood and wood manufactures from ('anada to the Vnited States. 

 [United States Bureau of Statistics.] 



