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BULLETIN 845, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



Table 22. — Reported production of beech 1 lumber, 1918. 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 290,000,000 feet.] 



State. 



United States 



Michigan 



"West Virginia. 



Indiana 



Pennsylvania 



New York 



Ohio 



Kentucky 



Tennessee 



Vermont 



Louisiana 



Virginia 



New Hampshire 



All other States (see Summary, p. 42) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills 



reporting. 



143 

 148 

 281 

 239 

 567 



294 

 212 

 119. 

 113 

 12 



55 

 55 

 264 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Feet b. m. 

 255,440,000 



46,181,000 

 36,631,000 

 34,212,000 

 32,249,000 

 31,573,000 



23,733,000 

 18,438,000 

 5,694,000 

 5,575,000 

 4,574,000 



3, 663, 000 

 3,096,000 

 9,821,000 



Per cent. 



100.0 



18.1 

 14.3 

 13.4 

 12.6 

 12.4 



9.3 



7.2 

 2.2 

 2.2 

 1.8 



1.4 

 1.2 

 3.9 



value per 



1,000 feet 



f. o. b. mill. 



S25.06 



25.52 

 26.87 

 26.74 

 25.22 

 24.96 



23.82 

 20.68 

 22.84 

 25.20 

 23.03 



23.76 

 25.23 

 23.83 



1 Beech ( Fagus atropunicea) is the only species that goes into beech lumber. 

 YELLOW POPLAR. 



Yellow poplar production, which declined 17 per cent in 1917 from 

 1916, fell off 26 per cent in 1918 from 1917. The cut of 241,963,000 

 feet reported in 1918 is but little more than one-fourth of the quan- 

 tity reported cut in 1909. The cut in 1918 slumped 34 per cent from 

 the 1917 figure in West Virginia, 15 per cent in Temiessee, 24 per 

 cent in. Kentucky, 8 per cent in Virginia, and 24 per cent in Georgia. 



The average mill value for yellow poplar in 1918 was $35.06 per 

 1,000 feet; in 1917 it was $27.17; so that there was an advance of 

 29 per cent for the year. 



Table 23. — Reported production of yellow poplar 1 lumber, 1918, 

 [Computed total production in the United States, 290,000,000 feet.] 



State. 



United States 



West Virginia 



Tennessee 



Virginia 



Kentucky 



Georgia 



North Carolina 



Alabama 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Pennsylvania 



South Carolina 



Mississippi 



Maryland 



All other States (see Summary, p. 42) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills 



reporting. 



2,011 



216 

 335 

 232 

 150 



230 

 124 

 154 

 140 

 128 



41 

 55 

 38 



Quantity 

 reported. 



Feel 6. m. 

 241, 69.3, 000 



52,462,000 

 41,338,000 

 34,088,000 

 31, 940, 000 

 21, 538, 000 



20, 336, 000 

 12,311,000 

 8,683,000 

 5,979,000 

 3,507,000 



2, 624, 000 

 2,318,000 

 1, 857, 000 



2, 712, 000 



100.0 



21.7 

 17.1 

 14.1 

 13.2 



8.4 

 5.1 

 3.6 

 2.5 

 1.4 



1.1 

 1.0 



value per 



1,000 feet 



f. o. b. mill. 



39.40 

 35.55 

 32.59 

 33.53 

 37.63 



29.30 

 27.78 

 43.60 

 41.54 

 32.26 



31.17 



28.37 

 32.67 



27.53 



i Yellow poplar {Liriodendron tulipifera) is the only species that goes into poplar lumber. 



