FOREST POLICY. 



The cut of 1900 consisted of: — 



White pine 1,300,000,000 feet b. m. 



Hemlock 850,000,000 feet b. m. 



Cedar 370,000,000 feet b. m. 



Other conifers 110,000,000 feet b. m. 



Ash 86,000,000 feet b. m. 



Basswood 46,000,000 feet b. m. 



Elm 1 10,000,000 feet b. m. 



Maple 400,000,000 feet b. m. 



White oak 135,000,000 feet b. m. 



Other hardwoods . . . 52,000,000 feet b. m. 



Logs are worth on the stump $3.06; at mill, $7.60. 



1,613 mills of $20,900 average investment are reported. 

 Michigan still leads the United States in the value of miscellaneous 

 forest products (furniture, wagon, agricultural, cooperage and 

 flooring stock), the output being $6,700,000. 



In the shingle production, worth $3,200,000, it is second 

 only to Washington. The .splendid railroad systems developed in 

 the past now facilitate the logging of hardwoods. A State cen- 

 sus of 1884 estimates the cord wood consumption at 5^4 million 

 cords annually, worth 8.9 million dollars. 



Paper industry usas 12,300 cords of home-grown spruce 

 and 83,000 cords of Canadian spruce. Total value of product is 

 $4,200,000, for 1900. 



Leather industry consumes in census year, in 27 tanneries, 

 62,000 cords of hemlock bark, valued at $498,000; 1,000 cords of 

 oak bark, valued at $8,800; 3,700 barrels of hemlock bark extract, 

 worth $45,000, and 13,500 barrels of oak bark extract, worth 

 $124,000. 



'6. Forestry movement: The impediments to conservative 

 forestry are: Agricultural qualities of white pine soil, excessive 

 taxation, total lack of means to check fires, difficulty of conserva- 

 tive lumbering in scattering holdings of virgin woods subject to 

 wind fall. 



In 187s a forestry commission was created, dying after two 

 years of existence. 



In 1887 the State Board of Agriculture was constituted as a 

 "Forestry Commission." Forestal agitation is lead by Senator 

 C. W. Garfield, assisted by the university, the agricultural college, 

 farmers' institutes and women's clubs. 



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