THE ASHES : THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND MANAGEMENT. 



the impossibility of the second growth's keeping pace with the annual 

 cut, which will be increasingly marked as the supply of old growth 

 disappears. 



About 98 per cent of the ash lumber produced in the United States 

 is from the three important commercial species — white (F. americana), 

 green (F. lanceolata), and black ash (F. nigra). The species which 

 make up the remaining 2 per cent of the lumber cut are Oregon (F. 

 oregona), blue (F. quadrangulata) , Biltmore (F. biltmoreana) , pumpkin 

 (F. profunda), and red ash (F. pennsylvanica) , which all have good 

 silvicultural possibilities. Commercially there are only two kinds of 

 ash lumber recognized — white ash and brown ash — and even these are 

 usually sold together under the common name of ash, because many 

 of the uses to which the lumber is put do not require their separation. 

 The term "green ash" is unknown commercially, and all the lumber 

 cut from this species is marketed as white ash or simply ash. 



Tables 1 and 2 show for each species its cut in each ash-producing 

 region of the United States, its proportion of the total cut, and its 

 relative importance in the region. These tables are based on census 

 data for 1910. From these data the cut of ash by counties was deter- 

 mined and careful estimates made by the author of the proportion of 

 each species in each county for which a report was made by the census. 



Table 1. — Cut of ash, by regions and species. 





Per 

 cent of 

 total in 

 United 



States. 



Total 

 cut in 

 region 

 (1,000 

 board 

 feet). 



White ash. » 



Green ash. 2 



Black ash. 



Region. 



1,000 

 board 

 feet. 



Per 

 cent of 

 total in 

 region. 



1,000 

 board 

 feet. 



Per 

 cent of 

 total in 

 region. 



1,000 

 board 

 feet. 



Per 

 cent of 

 total in 

 region. 





5.5 



7.4 



19.3 



32.8 



5.7 



28.8 



.2 

 .3 



12,965 

 17, 370 



45, 334 



76, 927 

 13, 307 



67, 678 



534 

 600 



10, 865 

 13, 945 



13, 630 



53, 950 



5,405 



6,900 



185 



83.8 

 80.3 



30.1 



70.1 

 40.6 



10.2 

 34.6 







2,100 

 3,370 



30, 098 



6,540 



16 2 





55 

 1,606 



16, 437 



7,902 



60, 778 

 349 



0.3 



3.5 



21.4 

 59.4 



89.8 

 65.4 



19.4 



Lake States (Michigan, Wisconsin, 



66.4 



Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, West Virginia, 



8.5 







Lower Mississippi Valley, including 

 Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, 

 Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.. 



Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and South 











Washington, Oregon, California 3 



















Total 



100 



234, 715 



104, 880 



44.7 



87, 177 



37.1 



42, 108 



17.9 







1 Includes small per cent of Biltmore and blue ash. 



2 Includes small per cent of pumpkin and red ash. 



3 All Oregon ash. 



