FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 187 



Statistics of Forest Products 



The Forest, Fish and Game Commission has annually, from 1905 on, 

 compiled statistics of the lumber and other forest products of the State 

 that are perhaps more accurate and complete than those of any other 

 State in the Union. Besides being printed in the annual report of the Com- 

 mission these statistics are also utilized by the United States Census Bureau. 



New York in the year 1908 stood nineteenth among the States in 

 point of lumber production, having fallen in position relatively to other 

 States for many years. It is possible, too, that the year 1908 marks the 

 beginning of an absolute fall in production. This could not be safely in- 

 ferred from the comparison of the figures for 1907 and 1908, because 1907 

 all over the country was a boom year. But the total product for 1908 was 

 materially lower than that for any of the three years preceding; production 

 of pulpwood was proportionately lower still, while the lumber output was 

 lower than in either 1906 or 1907, though slightly larger than that of 1905. 

 The figures for 1908 in detail follow. 



Forest Product for the Year 1908 



Lumber 



Spruce feet 



Adirondack counties 98 , 539 , 036 



Catskill counties 5,014,127 



Farming counties 4,383,374 



io 7>936,537 



Hemlock 



Adirondack counties 66 , 695 ,356 



Catskill counties 27 , 1 76 , 034 



Farming counties 100,338,937 



194,210,327 



Pine 



Adirondack counties 48 , 2 74 , 82 5 



Catskill counties 14, 645 , 750 



Farming counties 50,342 , 557 



113,263,132 



