12 BULLETIN 1007, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
PRIMARY INDUSTRIES. 
LUMBER. 
Statistics on production. — Statistics on the annual production of 
basswood lumber are available for the year 1899 and for the years 
1904 to 1920, inclusive. These data are given in Table 3, by States. 
According to this table the 1920 production was only about one-half 
that of the annual production from 1906 to 1909, when the maximum 
cut of basswood lumber was reached. The figures for the different 
years are not all directly comparable, because in some years more of 
the smaller mills were included, as noted in the table. For several 
years, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, and New York have 
produced the largest quantities. In 1918 more than three-fourths 
of the total reported lumber cut of basswood was from these four 
States. Figure 3 shows the rank of the different States in lumber 
production in different years. Figure 4 shows the 1918 lumber 
production b}^ counties. 
