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BULLETIN 1007. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
yellow poplar, maple, and oak, with which it is found in mixture, 
and the price varies greatly. Prices ranging from $2.50 to $10 a 
thousand board feet for mixed stands were reported from Kentucky, 
Tennessee, and West Virginia. The average value of basswood lum- 
ber per 1,000 board feet f. o. b. mills, obtained from reports of saw- 
mills on lumber production, is given in Table 8, by States, for those 
years in which the data were collected. With the exception of the 
years 1909, 1911, and 1915, this table shows a continuous increase 
in value; increasingly higher values are shown since the year 1915. 
Average prices in Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina are gen- 
erally $1 or $2 a thousand board feet below the average. 
Table 6. — Average stumpage values of basswood for 1907 and 1912, from reports on 
values from timberland owners. 
1912 
Northeastern States: 
Maine 
New Hampshire. 
Vermont 
New York 
Pennsylvania... 
$5.80 (20) 
6.25 (18) 
4.96 (27) 
8.31 (21) 
7.59 (41) 
$6.04 (48) 
7.56 (23) 
6. 90 (25) 
8.51 (88) 
8.14 (61) 
Average of 5 States. 
North Central States: 
Ohio 
Indiana 
6.68 (127) 
7.68 (245) 
9.59 (27) 
10.83 (27) 
11.59 (59) 
11.22 (43) 
Average of 2 States. 
10. 21 (54) 
11.43 (102) 
Southern Appalachian States: 
Maryland 
Virginia 
West Virginia 
Kentucky 
Tennessee 
North Carolina, 
4.50 
3.33 
3.91 
4.46 
4.04 
1.67 
(3) 
(6 
(43) 
(3) 
(12) 
(6) 
4. 50 (4) 
6.33 (4) 
4.11 (9) 
4.62 (25) 
4.22 (18) 
3.30 (23) 
Average of 6 States. 
3.75 (73) 4.16 (82) 
Lake States: 
Michigan- 
Upper Peninsula 
Lower Peninsula 
Southern tier of counties . 
State average 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
5.61 
8.95 
1.67 
8.26 
6.59 
5.50 
(23) 
(59) 
(6) 
(88} 
(65) 
(10) 
9.57 (86) 
7. 12 (122) 
7.41 (39) 
Average of 3 States. 
7.42 (163) : 8.02 (247) 
The numerals in parentheses indicate the number of reports on which the averages are based. (From 
Department of Agriculture Bulletin 285, The Northern Hardwood Forest, Table 12.) 
Table 7. 
-Comparative stumpage values per 1,000 board feet of basswood, maple, birch, 
and beech, 1912. 
[From reports of sales collected by the Forest Service.] 
Species. 
North- 
eastern 
States.i 
Southern 
States. 2 
Lake 
States. 3 
Basswood , . . 
$8.40 
5.98 
5.61 
4.38 
$4.92 
3.45 
3.33 
2.86 
$6.30 
Maple 
4.58 
Birch 
4.85 
Beech 
3.67 
1 Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. 
2 Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and. North Carolina, 
a Minn esota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. 
