40 BULLETIN 845, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 38. — Reported production of lath, 1916-18. 



State. 



Number of active mills 

 reporting. 



1916 



Quantity reported (number of pieces). 



1918 



United States 



Louisiana 



Minnesota 



Washington 



Wisconsin 



Mississippi 



Oregon 



Idaho 



Maine 



Florida 



Michigan 



West Virginia 



Arkansas 



Alabama 



California 



Montana 



Texas 



All other States (see Summary 

 P- 42) 



909 



1.456 



1,770 



1,362,187,000 



2,281,738,000 



2,754,688,000 



45 

 58 

 113 

 33 



32 

 22 

 106 

 27 

 62 



54 

 31 

 31 



20 



16 

 18 



69 

 53 

 64 

 121 

 30 



46 

 24 

 139 

 28 

 80 



80 

 30 

 39 

 19 



12 

 20 



238,543,000 

 155,905,000 

 154,668,000 

 122,858,000 

 81,598,000 



78, 780, 000 

 70,494,000 

 62,671,000 

 55,171,000 

 48,533,000 



33,289,000 

 26,481,000 

 25,227,000 

 22,281,000 



21,903,000 

 21,866,000 



143,919,000 



348,806,000 

 213,092,000 

 230,194,000 

 185,074,000 

 133,925,000 



132, 418, 000 

 86,264,000 



142,488,000 

 97,954,000 

 84,352,000 



44,233,000 

 147,578,000 

 39,685,000 

 37,651,000 



23,332,000 

 47,654,000 



354,551,000 

 267, 788, 000 

 264,690,000 

 218,598,000 

 162,689,000 



142,352,000 

 117,365,000 

 215,117,000 

 85,187,000 

 109,323,000 



96,665,000 

 78,157,000 

 64,922,000 

 30,713,000 



25,522,000 

 42,686,000 



478,363,000 



PRODUCTION OF SHINGLES. 



Shingle production showed a decrease in 1918 of 35 per cent from 

 the 1917 figures. The 1917 output was less by 7 per cent than the 

 preceding year. The number of shingles reported produced in 1918 

 was 5,690,182,000. The number of mills reporting was 1,052, in 

 comparison with 1,619 in 1917 and 1,932 in 1916. The figures would 

 indicate the inactivity of 880 mills which were active in 1916. Wash- 

 ington's output of 4,238,714,000 shingles is three-fourths of the whole 

 number manufactured in the United States. All of the States, with 

 the exception of Tennessee, show a decreased production in 1918. 

 The decline in Washington was 33 per cent from the year before. 



Table 39. — Reported production of shingles, 1916-18. 



State. 



United States 



Washington 



Oregon 



Louisiana 



Michigan 



California 



Florida , 



Wisconsin 



Maine 



Alabama 



North Carolina 



Georgia 



Tennessee 



Idaho 



Arkansas 



All other States (see Summary 

 P- 42) 



Number of active mills 

 reporting. 



1918 



1,052 



158 

 25 

 44 



37 

 63 

 100 



230 

 42 

 55 

 69 

 41 



49 

 73 



150 

 94 



110 



116 

 45 



7 

 44 



238 

 50 

 53 

 69 

 52 



51 

 73 

 200 

 113 

 135 



148- 



54 



9 



42 



Quantity reported (number of pieces). 



5,690,182,000 



4,238,714,000 

 281,138,000 

 272,866,000 

 148,565,000 

 146,071,000 



102,725,000 

 91,907,000 

 87,193,000 

 50,065,000 

 48,080,000 



46,395,000 

 44,760,000 

 32,893,000 

 25,870,000 



72,940,000 



8,696,513,000 



,313,364,000 

 481,353,000 

 453,819,000 

 203,907,000 

 261,434,000 



143,792,000 

 151,726,000 

 166,101,000 

 54,735,000 

 73,703,000 



112,430,000 



5,167,000 



52,631,000 



59,927,000 



162,424,000 



9,371,333,000 



6,739,388,000 

 471,762,000 

 404,263,000 

 201,171,000 

 348,622,000 



131,795,000 

 175,455,000 

 217,543,000 

 81,414,000 

 123,959,000 



131,763,000 

 9,176,000 

 79,960,000 

 45,411,000 



209,651,000 



