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APPENDIX. 



Value Accretion and Waste of Wood. 



The second column gives the actual cubic contents ; the third 

 gives the feet board measure, as noted in the most favorable 

 log scale translated into cubic feet by dividing by 12; the 

 third column shows the amount of waste experienced at 

 the saw; the last column shows what the cubic foot actually 

 in the log has been paid for, if a stumpage price per M feet 

 board measure prevailed. 



P. 27. Wood for Fuel in the United States. — The census 

 of 1880 made a comprehensive canvass of the fuel wood con- 

 sumption, which showed that 33,375,000 persons used wood 

 for domestic fuel at the rate of 4^ cords per capita, while the 

 total consumption for domestic, railroad, steamboat, and 

 manufacturing purposes was nearly 146 million cords, the 

 total valued at $322,000,000, or 2.9 cords per capita, nearly 

 twelve times the German consumption. No statistics are at 

 hand to estimate the present consumption of wood for fuel in 

 the United States, but there are no reasons to assume that it 

 has decreased appreciably in spite of the fact of the enormous 

 increase in coal consumption, which is mainly due to indus- 



