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BULLETIN 845, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 16. — Reported production of gum 1 lumber, 1918. 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 765,000,000 feet.] 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Per cent. 



Average 

 value per 



1,000 feet 

 f. o. b. mill. 



United States. 



1,604 



Feet b, m.. 

 651,545,000 



100.0 



3.21 



Arkansas . . 

 Mississippi . 

 Louisiana . . 

 Tennessee.. 

 Alabama. . . 



Missouri 



Texas 



South Carolina. 



Virginia 



Kentucky 



North Carolina 



Georgia 



Oklahoma 



All other States (see Summary, p. 42). 



239 

 185 



82 

 187 



90 



57 

 51 

 30 

 104 

 46 



107 

 35 



6 

 385 



196,359,000 

 148,538,000 

 104,514,000 

 56, 198, 000 

 29, 439, 000 



24,037,000 

 16,448,000 

 15,576,000 

 11,036,000 

 9, 151, 000 



8,136,000 

 7,723,000 

 6,871,000 

 17,519,000 



30.1 

 22.8 

 16.0 



3.7 

 2.5 

 2.4 

 1.7 

 1.4 



1.3 



1.2 

 1.1 



2.7 



22.64 

 26.62 

 22.02 

 23.14 

 20.90 



22.72 

 19.53 

 21.06 

 18.61 

 22.09 



18.10 

 21.74 

 23. 70 

 24.15 



i Red (or sweet) gum (Liquidamber styraciflua) is the only species that goes into red-gnm lumber. Com- 

 mercial sap gum is the sapwood of the red gum. 



CYPRESS. 



The falling off in cypress production was more marked than for 

 any other one wood. The decrease in reported production was 

 339,000,000 feet, or 37 per cent. The reported cut in 1918 was 

 578,026,000 feet. The cut in Louisiana, in which State 51 per cent 

 of the country's cypress was produced, declined from 509,659,000 

 feet in 1917 to 296,986,000 feet in 1918, or 42 per cent. Florida's 

 cut was 85,376,000 feet in 1918, or 49 per cent less than the- 

 166,857, 000 feet of the year before. South Carolina ranked third 

 among the cypress-producing States in 1917, with a production of 

 59,107,000 feet. In 1918 the cut dwindled to 28,898,000 feet, or 

 half as much as the year before, and the State dropped into fifth 

 place. In 1918, the number of mills reporting totaled 587 in com- 

 parison with 654 for the preceding year. 



The average value of cypress took an upward turn of 28 per cent 

 from the average of $23.92 in 1917 to $30.56 in 1918, an increase of 

 $6.64 per 1,000 feet. 



