UTILIZATION OF ASH. 



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Table 8. — Rank of the different States in amount of ash lumber produced in 

 the year 1899 and the years 1904 to 1915, inchisive— Continued. 



Rank. 



1911 



1912 



1913 



1914 



1915 



1 



Ohio . 



Ohio 



Arkansas 



Louisiana 



Termessee 



Arkansas 



Wisconsin 



New York 



Indiana 



Arkansas. 



2 







Tennessee 



Teimessee. 



3 





Indiana 



Louisiana 



Louisiana. 



4 



Wisconsin 



Tennessee 



Indiana 



Wisconsin 



5 







Ohio 



Indiana. 



6 





Louisiana . 



Wisconsin 



Ohio. 



7 





Mictdgan 



Pennsylvania 



New York 



Kentucky 





Ohio 



Michigan. 



8 



9 



New York 



Missouri 



New York 



Mississippi 



West Virginia 



Kentucky 



Michigan 



Mississippi 



Pennsylvania... 

 West Virginia. . . 

 North Carolina. . 

 Missouri . . 



Mississippi. 

 New York. 



10 



Pennsylvania 



West Virginia 



Kentucky. 



11 



Mississippi 



West Virginia 



Oklahoma 



West Virginia. 



12 



Michigan 



Pennsylvania. 



13 



Mississippi 



Vermont . . 



Pennsylvania 



Maine 



MissourL 



14 



Missouri 



Illinois 



Texas. 



15 



Texas 



North Carolina 



Virginia... 



Texas 



Kentucky 



Vermont 



Texas 



North Carolina. 



16 



North Carolina 



Oklahoma 



Georgia 



Vermont. 



17 



Vermont 



Vermont 



Georgia. 





Minnesota 



Texas 



South Carolina 



North Carolina 



Florida 





Illinois. 



19 . .. 



Maine 



Virginia 



Minnesota 





Minnesota. 



20 



Maine 



Minnesota 



Oklahoma 



South Carolina.. 

 Maine 



Florida. 



21 



Alabama 



Georgia 



Illinois 



South Carolina. 





Illinois 



Illinois 



Virginia 



Alabama. 



23 



Georgia 



Aiabama. . 



Minnesota 



Maine. 



24 



Connecticut 



Massachusetts. .... 



South Carolina 



New Hampshire . . 

 Maryland 



New Hampshire . . 



Massachusetts 



Connecticut 



Oregon 



Alabama 



Alabama 



Massachusetts.. . 

 New Hampshire 

 Connecticut 



Virginia. 



25 



26 



27 



New Hampshire . . 



Massachusetts 



Connecticut 



Oklahoma 



NewHampsMre. 



Massachusetts. 



Oklahoma. 



28. ... 



South Carolina 



Maryland . . . 



Connecticut. 



29 



Towa 



California . . . 



Oregon 



New Jersey. 



30 



New Jersey. 



Florida 



Iowa 



Rhode Island 



Oregon 



Rhode Island . . . 



New Jersey 



Maryland 



Iowa 



Iowa. 



31 . . 



Florida 



Maryland. 



32 



California 



Rhode Island 



California 



Iowa 



Oregon. 



33 



Oregon... . 



Maryland . . . 



Washington. 



31 



35 



Washington 



Rhode island. 



Kansas and .Ne- 

 braska. 

 South Dakota 



New Jersey. 



Washington 



Kansas and Ne- 

 braska. 



New Jer.sey 



Delaware 



Washington 



Delaware 



Rhode Island. 

 Delaware. 



36 



Kansas and Ne- 

 braska. 





37 







38 













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These changes indicate the waning importance of old growth as 

 compared with second growth. The decline in total production is a 

 result of the inability of the second growth to keep pace with the 

 annual cut= This condition will be increasingly marked as the supply 

 of old growth disappears. Since 1912 the lower Mississippi Valley 

 States, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, which cut about half 

 and half from old and young growth, have been in the lead. 



Table 9 indicates the proportion of the ash lumber cut contributed 

 by different regions in the United States for the years 1899, 1909, 

 1910, 1912, and 1914. It shows a great decrease in the amount of ash 

 lumber cut in the Lake States, which was chiefly from virgin supplies 

 of black ash, and a great increase in the supply from the lower Mis- 

 sissippi Valley States,^ chiefly from green ash, both second and old 

 growth, on intrinsically good agricultural land which will ultimately 

 be cleared for farming. New England, the Middle States, and the 

 Central States, where the supply is chiefly from second-growth white 

 ash on more or less permanent woodlots, are holding their own or 

 increasing in the proportion which they contribute to the ash lumber 

 output. 



1 If the cut of ash for cooperage stock were added to the lumber cut, the lower 

 Mississippi Valley States would be considerably further in the lead. 



