FOREST POLICY. 



The cut of 1900 consisted of: 



White pine i ,300,000,000 feet b. m. 



Hemlock 850,000,000 feet b. m. 



Cedar 370,000,000 feet b. m. 



Other conifers 1 10,000,000 feet b. m. 



Ash 86,000,000 feet b. m. 



Basswood 46,000,000 feet b. m. 



Elm 1 10,000,000 feet b. m. 



Maple 400,000,000 feet b. m. 



White oak 135,000,000 feet b. m. 



Other hardwoods. . . 52,000,000 feet b. m. 



Logs are worth on the stump $3.06; at mill, $7.60. 



1,613 mills of $20,900 average investment are reported. 

 Michigan still leads the United States in the value of miscellaneous 

 forest products (furniture, wagon, agricultural, cooperage and 

 flooring stock), the output being $6,700,000. 



In the shingle production, worth $3,200,000, it is second 

 only to Washington. The splendid railroad systems developed in 

 the past now facilitate the logging of hardwoods. A State cen- 

 sus of 1884 estimates the cord wood consumption at 5^2 million 

 cords annually, worth 8.9 million dollars. 



Paper industry uses 12,300 cords of home-grown spruce 

 and 83,000 cords of Canadian spruce. Total value of product is 

 $4,200,000, for 1900. 



Leather industry consumes in census year, in 27 tanneries, 

 62,000 cords of hemlock bark, valued at $498,000; 1,000 cords of 

 oak bark, valued at $8,800; 3,700 barrels of hemlock bark extract, 

 worth $45,000, and 13,500 barrels of oak bark extract, worth 

 $124,000. 



6. Forestry movement: The impediments to conservative 

 forestry are: Agricultural qualities of white pine soil, excessive 

 taxation, total lack of means to check fires, difficulty of conserva- 

 tive lumbering in scattering holdings of virgin woods subject to 

 wind fall. 



In 1875 a forestry commission was created, dying after two 

 years of existence. 



In 1887 the State Board of Agriculture was constituted as a 

 "Forestry Commission." Forestal agitation is lead by Senator 

 C. W. Garfield, assisted by the university, the agricultural college, 

 farmers' institutes and women's clubs. 



