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FORESTRY INVESTIGATIONS U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



In former years the imports were more closely differentiated in tbe reports of the Statistical 

 Bureau, especially as to the kinds of cabinet woods. To show this differentiation, and also to 

 enable us to form an idea of the amount of wood represented in the importations of materials 

 which we could produce, and in our exports, an estimate of their cubic contents was made in the 

 report of the Division of Forestry for 1887. A portion of the tables, which covered the period 

 from 1880 to 1887, is here reproduced. It appears from these that our imports represent in the 

 neighborhood of 100,000,000 cubic feet of wood, while our exports, worth nearly $00,000,000, must 

 at present amount to probably 200,000,000 cubic feet. From these tabulations we also see that we 

 pay for imports at the rate of 15 to 16 cents per cubic foot, while our exports are figured at 

 between 11 and 12 cents. 



Exports of wood and wood products, 1883-1887. 



a The estimates of cubic feet marked (a) are based upon the values given and not upon official reports of quantity, and are therefore to 

 b taken as only approximately correct. 



