54 C. A. SCHENCK. 



Great Britain 14 cubic feet per head of population 



France 25 , ,, 



Germany 37 



Canada 200 



United States 230 ,, 



Tiie 230 cubic feet used per capita in the United States in- 

 clude 470 feet b. m. of lumber, produced from about 70 cubic 

 feet of logs. Another 80 cubic feet are used technically in 

 miscellaneous forms, and the balance of 80 cubic feet per capita 

 is consumed as fuel. 



The consumption of fuelwood is decreasing all over the 

 world, and most rapidly in such countries as are showing a 

 rapid increase industrially. 



The consumption of fuelwood on the farms in the U. S. 

 exceeds 82 per cent; the smaller towns in the United States 

 have a consumption of about 15 per cent; whilst the larger 

 cities consume only 2 per cent of the total quantity used in 

 the United States. 



The annual consumption of all wood goods in the United 

 States, expressed in billions of cubic feet, is given by circular 

 181 of the Forest Service as follows: 



In the above figures there is not included any waste like that 

 connected with the clearing of farms, or that caused by forest fires. 



The consumption of all timber is equal to the commercial 

 production of all timber in the United States, approximately. 



The exports (21/2 billion feet b. m.) overbalance the imports 

 (IV2 billion feet b. m.) by only 1 billion feet b. m. 



Census statistics going back to the year 1850 give the con- 

 sumption of sawed lumber as follows: 



