PRODUCnOif OF LUMBER^ LATH, AND SHINGLES. 



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HICKORY. 



Several species of hickory are cut for lumber in this country ; the 

 wood grows naturally nowhere else in the world. The species cut 

 most are shagbark {Carya ovafa), shellbark (Gary a laciniosa), pig- 

 nut {Gary a glabra)^ bitternut {Carya cordiformis) , and mocker- 

 nut {Gary a alba). The Lower Mississippi and the Ohio Valleys 

 supply the bulk of the hickory lumber. Industries which use the 

 largest quantities of hickory prefer it in the form of blanks, squares, 

 or billets. It is usually more profitable to saw hickory into such 

 dimension stock than into lumber. Since in each of the principal 

 producing States all the commercial hickories are cut, no segrega- 

 tion by species can be indicated in the table. 



Table 28. — Reported production of. hickory Imnher, 1915. 



[Computed total production in United States, 100,000 M feet b. m.] 



State. 



Number 



of active 



mills 



report- 



Quantity 



reported, 



Mfeet 



b. m. 



Per 

 cent. 



Average 



value per 



Mfeet 



f. 0. b. 



mill. 



United States 



Arkansas 



Tennessee '. 



West Virginia 



Kentucky 



Indiana 



Ohio 



Missouri 



Pennsylvania 



Louisiana 



Mississippi 



All other States (see Summary, p. 40) 



2,526 



86, 015 



100.0 



144 

 205 

 205 

 181 

 274 

 312 

 120 

 264 

 15 

 51 



13, 443 

 11, 933 



9,372 

 8,708 

 7,150 

 6,851 

 5,236 

 4,453 

 3,770 

 3,220 

 11, 879 



15.6 



13.9 



10.9 



10.1 



8.3 



8.0 



6.1 



5.2 



4.4 



3.7 



13.8 



3.35 



23.76 

 24.08 

 21.81 

 22.21 

 26.29 

 24.07 

 27.03 

 20.04 

 24.35 

 23.10 



WALNUT. 



Walnut lumber is cut from the common black walnut {Juglans 

 nigra) , which grows throughout the eastern half of the country, but 

 is most available in the Central States. Values for walnut were 

 higher in 1915 than for previous years, and the cut therefore greater. 

 The demand for gunstock material accounts for this. In Illinois 

 practically all of the walnut reported was cut by two or three mills 

 which specialized on gunstocks, and so the average value for Illinois 

 is higher than for other States, where the larger number of mills 

 reporting included man}'^ cutting low grade lumber only. 



