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BULLETIN 1007, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
greatest producing States are West Virginia, Tennessee, and Ken- 
tucky, contains a quarter of the basswood, while the South Atlantic 
and East Gulf and lower Mississippi regions contain less than 5 per 
cent of the supply. The region shown in figure 2 is estimated to 
contain about 98J per cent of the total amount in the United States. 
PRINCIPAL REGION OF GROWTH 
OF BASSWOOD TIMBER 
Fig. 2.— Principal region of growth of basswood timber (shaded area). 
ANNUAL DRAIN ON THE SUPPLY. 
The total present annual demand for basswood timber is difficult to 
determine, because of a lack of statistics for some of the industries 
using basswood logs as raw material. The total basswood lumber 
production for 1920 is placed at 195,000,000 board feet. Reports on 
veneer production in 1919, which are the latest available data, give 
11,134,000 board feet, log scale, of basswood consumed in that year, 
