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consumed in the New England States (as well as in New York 

 State) was cut in the spruce region. The imported spruce and 

 poplar pulpwood consumed in the New England mills of course 

 cannot be credited to the cut of the spruce region, coming, as it 

 does, largely from Canada. 



Omitting the imported pulpwood from the table leaves a total 

 consumption of 3,278,630 cords of pulpwood cut in the United 

 States. The New England States produced 1,079,131 cords, 

 and New York State 495,616, making a total of 1,574,747 cords 

 for the spruce region. This is nearly 47 per cent of the total 

 production in the country. When only spruce and poplar are 

 considered there is a total consumption of 1,956,125 cords. Of 

 this amount, 877,912 cords were consumed (presumably also 

 produced) in the New England States, and 437,680 cords in 

 New York State, giving a total of 1,315,592 cords for the spruce 

 region, or over 67 per cent of the total production. 



Lumber Industry. — While the production of pulpwood may 

 be considered as the typical forest industry, the cutting of wood 

 for use in the form of lumber holds first place in the annual 

 amount of product. This is the leading forest region of the 

 country for the production of eastern spruce and balsam fir 

 lumber. The following table gives the amount of these timbers 

 cut in 1909: 



PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF SPRUCE AND 

 BALSAM FIR FOR LUMBER — 1909. (See note 2 on page 244.) 



1 Approximately 286,045,000 feet, board measure, of western spruce were cut in the Rocky Moun- 

 tain and Pacific coast states. 



2 The cut of balsam in New York is included in this total. 



