24 BULLETIN 232, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 26. — Hickory lumber sawed. 



State 



Number 

 of active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity 

 (M feet 

 b. m.). 



Per cent 

 of distri- 

 bution. 



United States 



Arkansas 



Tennessee 



Kentucky 



Ohio 



Indiana 



Louisiana 



Mississippi 



West Virginia 



Missouri 



Illinois 



Pennsylvania 



All other States J . 



2,579 



162,980 



100.0 



13* 

 225 

 217 

 362 

 301 

 22 

 48 

 148 

 159 

 120 

 192 

 647 



26, 750 



26, 678 



17,583 



15,545 



12,919 



10,639 



10,625 



9,262 



8,020 



5,124 



4,578 



15,257 



16.4 

 16.4 

 10.8 

 9.5 

 7.9 

 6.5 

 6.5 

 5.7 

 4.9 

 3.2 

 2.8 

 9.4 



i Includes establishments distributed as follows: Alabama, 35; Connecticut, 52; Delaware, 3; Florida, 2 

 Georgia, 28; Iowa, 22; Kansas, 3; Maine, 1; Maryland, 20; Massachusetts, 5; Michigan, 26; Minnesota, 4 

 New Hampshire, 1; New Jersey, 16; New York, 255; >«orth Carolina, 77; Oklahoma, 11; Rhode Island, 2 

 South Carolina, 6; Texas, 9; Virginia, 64; and Wisconsin, 5. 



SUGAR PINE. 



Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) , the largest pine in the United 

 States, grows in California and Oregon, -chiefly in the former State. 

 The wood closely resembles white pine, and the uses of the two are 

 similar. Botanically it is a white or soft pine. 



Table 27. — Sugar pine lumber sawed. 



State. 



Number 

 of active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity 

 (M feet 

 b. m.). 



Per cent 

 of distri- 

 bution. 





45 



149, 926 



100.0 









40 

 5 



147, 023 

 2,903 



98.1 





1.9 







TUPELO. 



Four species contribute to the output of tupelo lumber, but the 

 bulk of the product is cut from cotton gum (Nyssa aquatica). It is a 

 tree which nourishes best in deep swamps in the coast region of the 

 Southern States or along the lowlands of large rivers from southern 

 Virginia to Texas. 



Water gum (Nyssa Infiora), ranging from Maryland to Florida and 

 west to Alabama, and sour tupelo or wild limetree (Nyssa ogeche), 

 found in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, are cut for lumber to 

 a small extent. 



Black gum or pepperidge (Nyssa sylvatica) ranges throughout the 

 South and northward to Maine and Michigan, and is cut in North 

 Carolina, Virginia, and other States north of the Ohio and Potomac 

 Rivers. 



