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the forests in Austria, per acre and year, produce 42 cubic 

 feet of wood and timber. For Norway, the increment production 

 per acre and year is given for the south western parts as 

 22 cubic feet; and for the northern parts as 11 cubic feet 

 per acre and year. 



ad (b). The commercial production of home-grown lumber 

 and timber in the United States is in excess of its consumption. 

 The surplus which is exported consists of: 



2 biHion feet b. m. of sawed lumber 



5 million cubic feet of hewed timber 



60 million staves 



20 million shingles 



10 million dollars worth of other raw woodgoods. 



The exportations amount to the following, in our leading 

 lumber species, for the time being: 



In the case of Yellow Pine IIV2 per cent of the total cut 

 ., Redwood 10 

 Douglas Fir 8 



In the total commercial production of sawed lumber, some 

 44 billion feet board measure now-a-days, the following leading 

 species participate: 



From year to year, there seems to occur a slight upheaval 

 in the rank-list of the various states considered as participants 

 in our lumber production. The upheaval is not actual; and it 

 can not be actual: It is explained by the unusual difficulties 

 connected with the annual collection of true lumber statistics. 

 The number of sawmills in the United States, e. g., cannot 

 have increased in the recent past. The XIIP'' census reports, 

 nevertheless, an increase in the number of sawmills, within the 



