12 BULLETIN 1007, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



PRIMARY INDUSTRIES. 



LUMBER. 



Statistics on production.— Statistics on the annual production of 

 basswood lumber are available for the year 1899 and for the years 

 1904 to 1920, inclusive. These data are given in Table 3, by States. 



According to this table the 1920 production was only about one-half 

 that of the annual production from 1906 to 1909, when the maximum 

 cut of basswood lumber was reached. The figures for the different 

 years are not all directly comparable, because in some years more of 

 the smaller mills were included, as noted in the table. For several 

 years, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York have 

 produced the largest quantities. In 1918 more than three-fourths 

 of the total reported lumber cut of basswood was from these four 

 States. Figure 3 shows the rank of the different States in lumber 

 production in different years. Figure 4 shows the 1918 lumber 

 production by counties. 



