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BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Tho reported production of yellow pine in 1916 was 13,411,411,000 

 feet, an increase of 1,234,076,000 feet, or approximately 10 per cent 

 over 1915. Increased production is in evidence in all the States 

 listed with the exception of Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and 

 Kentucky, where decreased output is recorded. The only change in 

 the relative rank as producing States was in the displacement of 

 Arkansas by Alabama in fifth position, due to a greater output in tho 

 latter State by approximately 157,000,000 feet without any material 

 difference in production in Arkansas. Reports were received from 

 6,592 active mills in 1916 as contrasted with 6,006 in 1915. 



The computed total production of yellow pine in the United States 

 is nearly 2.5 per cent greater for 1916 than for the preceding year — - 

 15,055,000,000 feet as against 14,700,000,000 feet. 



There was an advance in the average value from $12.41 per 1,000 

 feet in 1915 to $14.33 in 1916. 



Table 7. — Reported production of yellow pine lumber, 1916. 

 (Computed total production in United States, 15,055,000,000 feet b. m.) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Percent. 



Average 

 value i ior 



Mfeot, 

 f. o. b. mill. 



United States 



Louisiana 



Mississippi 



Texas 



North Carolina 



Alabama 



Arkansas 



Florida 



South Carolina 



Virginia 



G eorgia 



Oklahoma 



Tennessee 



Maryland 



Missouri 



Kentucky 



All otherStates (see summary, p. 35) 



6,592 



Feet b. m. 

 13,411,411,000 



236 

 497 

 272 

 1, 322 

 693 

 410 

 214 

 437 

 995 

 699 



48 

 247 

 125 



91 

 101 

 205 



3,063, 



1,963, 



1,649, 



1, 232, 



1,180, 



1,075, 



976, 



643, 



632, 



621, 



207, 



42, 



28, 



26, 



12, 



53, 



468, 000 

 2S5,000 

 334,000 

 849,000 

 318,000 

 973,000 

 516,000 

 5S6.000 

 049, 000 

 419,000 

 501,000 

 697,000 

 78$ 000 

 851,000 

 633, 000 

 546, 000 



100.0 



22.9 



14.6 



12.3 



9.2 



8.8 



8.0 



7.3 



4.8 



4.7 



4.6 



1.6 



.3 



.2 



.2 



.1 



.4 



S14.33 



14.89 

 14.77 

 15.22 

 13.20 

 13.06 

 15.26 

 13.85 

 13.67 

 13.96 

 12.96 

 13. 82 

 13.11 

 13.73 

 13.21 

 15. 01 



DOUGLAS FIR. 



Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxijolia), winch is the principal commerT 

 cial species of the Western States and of which more exists in standing 

 timber than any other one species, was produced to the extent of 

 5,413,431,000 feet, nearly one and one-quarter billion feet (31.33 

 per cent) more than in 1915. The quantity cut approaches the 

 record of five and one-half billion feet made in 1913. A feature of 

 the 1916 figures is the increase in Oregon over 1915 of more than 100 

 in the number of active mills and nearly 500,000,000 feet in the cut; 

 the State's proportion of the total quantity cut grew from 27.2 per 

 cent to 29 per cent. 



