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BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



TUPELO. 



Tupelo statistics, as given in this bulletin, cover production of cot- 

 ton gum (Ni/ssa aquatica), commercially called tupelo, and black gum, 

 or pepperidgo {Xijssa sylvatica). Prior to 1915 many of the mills 

 reported their cut of black gum with red gum. 



The reported cut of tupelo in 1916 of 214,239,000 feet is 40 per 

 cent more than the quantity reported produced the year before; the 

 increase is correlative with the increase of 36.3 per cent in red gum 

 as previously noted. 



A feature of the output for the year is the enlarged cut in Louisiana, 

 which is 81 per cent in excess of the year before, and which advanced 

 the State's production from 41 per cent to 53 per cent of the total for 

 all States. Several other changes occurred in the relative rank of the 

 larger producing States, Alabama assuming second from fourth place 

 in 1915 and North Carolina dropping from second place into fourth. 



The computed total production was 275,000,000 feet; it was 

 170,000,000 feet the preceding year. 



The average mill value of $13 per 1,000 feet was an increase of 

 75 cents per 1,000 feet over the 1915 value. 



Table 24. — Reported production of tupelo lumber, 1916. 

 [Computed total production in United States, 275,000,000 feet b. m.] 



United States 



Louisiana 



Alabama 



Virginia 



North Carolina 



Mississippi 



South Carolina 



Missouri 



Tennessee 



Arkansas 



All other States (see summary, p. 38) 



Number of 

 active 

 mills re- 

 porting. 



618 



Quantity re- 

 ported. 



Feet b. m. 

 214, 239, 000 



50 

 43 

 31 

 38 

 43 

 17 

 24 

 68 

 56 

 24S 



113, 



22, 

 21, 

 8j 

 8, 

 7, 

 6. 

 6, 

 5, 

 15, 



115,000 

 416,000 

 235,000 

 33S, 000 

 216,000 

 363, 000 

 329,000 

 083, 000 

 497. 000 

 647, 000 



Percent. 



100.0 



52.8 

 -10.5 

 9.9 

 3.9 

 3.8 

 3.4- 

 3.0 

 2.8 

 2.6 

 7.3 



Average 



value per 



M feet. 



f. o. b. mill. 



$13.00 



13.56 

 12.43 

 12. 11 

 10.70 

 12.67 

 13.46 

 11.65 

 10.92 

 12.06 



BASS WOOD. 



Basswood, sometimes called linden or linn (Tilia americana) is cut 

 mostly in the Lake States, and white basswood (Tilia heterophylla) 

 and other species in the Appalachian Mountain region. 



The reported cut of 209,275,000 feet in 1916 is less than 1 per cent 

 more than that scheduled for the previous year. The peak in bass- 

 wood cut statistics was reached in 1909, and since that year the out- 

 put has gradually diminished. 



Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York remain tha 

 leading States in production, each having a reported cut of approxi- 

 mately the same quantity as in 1915. 



