BULLETIN 1007, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



greatest producing States are West Virginia, Tennessee, and Ken- 

 tucky, contains a quarter of the basswood, while the South Atlantic 

 and East Gulf and lower Mississippi regions contain less than 5 per 

 cent of the supply. The region shown in figure 2 is estimated to 

 contain about 98^ per cent of the total amount in the United States. 



PRINCIPAL REGION OF GROWTH 

 OF BASSWOOD TIMBER 



Fig. 2.— Principal region of growth of basswood timber (shaded area). 



ANNUAL DRAIN ON THE SUPPLY. 



The total present annual demand for basswood timber is difficult to 

 determine, because of a lack of statistics for some of the industries 

 using basswood logs as raw material. The total basswood lumber 

 production for 1920 is placed at 195,000,000 board feet. Reports on 

 veneer production in 1919, which are the latest available data, give 

 11,134,000 board feet, log scale, of basswood consumed in that year, 



