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BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 17. — Reported production of yellow poplar lumber, 1916. 

 [Commuted total production In United States, 500,000,000 feet b. m.] 



United Siatcs 



West Virginia 



Ttnncsseo 



\ ir^i.ii.: 



Kentucky 



i i ' irofiaa 



Georgia 



Alabama 



Ohio 



South Carolina 



-ippi 



Ail other States (see summary, p. 38) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



2,900 



304 

 394 

 365 

 337 

 2S4 

 110 

 16-1 

 201 

 73 

 81 

 590 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Firth, m. 

 39-1,854,000 



Percent. 



102, 

 47, 

 47, 

 40, 

 37, 

 2S. 

 27. 

 IS, 

 16, 

 10. 

 18, 



51.-,. 001) 



591,000 

 022,009 



544, 000 

 272, 000 

 509.000 

 205j 000 

 194,000 

 350, 001) 

 SI 1.000 

 391,000 



100.0 



Average 

 value per 



M feet, 

 f. o. I), mill. 



20.0 

 12.1 

 11.9 

 10.3 

 9.4 

 7.2 

 6.9 

 4.7 

 •1.1 

 2.7 

 4.7 



S21. 89 



25. 52 

 22.90 

 20.50 

 22.13 

 17.5-1 

 IS. 17 

 15. 55 

 30.33 

 16.66 

 19. 59 



CHESTNUT. 



Chestnut (Casianea dentata) lumber production was partially 

 influenced by the efforts to utilize the timber killed by the chestnut 

 blight. The reported cut of 419,581,000 feet is but 5 per cent more 

 than the quantity reported by the mills in 1915. 



Massachusetts operators made the best showing, relatively, in 

 increased output among the individual States. Connecticut and 

 New York also increased their cut over the preceding year. 



The computed total production of chestnut for 1916 was 

 535,000,000 feet. 



The average mill value was $17.05; in 1915 it was $16.17. 



Table 18. — Reported production of chestnut lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 535,000,000 feet b. m.] 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Average 

 I f. o. b. mill. 



United States 



West Virginia 



Pennsylvania 



North Carolina 



Virginia 



Connecticut 



Tennessee 



Massachusetts 



Kentucky 



New York 



Maryland 



New Jersey 



All other States (see summary, p. 38) 



331 

 633 

 236 

 318 

 143 

 257 

 129 

 244 

 438 

 89 

 77 

 302 



Feet ft. m . 

 419,581,000 



132, 192, 000 

 51,146,000 

 46, 497, 000 

 37, 270, 000 

 30,722,000 

 26, 844, 000 

 23, 135, 000 

 17,416,000 

 15,540,000 

 9, 572, 000 

 8, 704, 000 

 20, 543, 000 



100.0 



-r 31. 5 

 12.2 

 11.1 

 8.9 

 7.3 

 6.4 

 +5.5 

 4.1 

 3.7 

 2.3 

 2.1 

 4.9 



+ S17.05 



17.59 

 17. Ao 

 17. !l 



15. 28 



ia so 



16 [0 



16. 09 

 16.26 

 17.68 

 11. II 

 16. 53 



REDWOOD. 



Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and bigtree (Sequoia washing-. 

 toniana), which are without distinction marketed as redwood, are 

 cut exclusively in California, though the range of the former extends 

 into southwest Oregon. 



