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poles, and reaches of vehicles, but is much inferior to species more 
commonly used for these parts, as hickory and oak. 
FUEL. 
Sycamore trees are well adapted for conversion, wholly or in part, 
into fuel wood because they are to a great extent made up of large 
limbs which are not suitable for other purposes. Sycamore wood, 
however, does not have so high a heating value as many other woods, 
as, for instance, oak and beech. A standard cord of these, made up 
of 4-foot sticks in a pile 8 feet long and 4 feet high, is approximately 
equivalent in heating value to 1 ton of coal. About 1| standard 
cords of sycamore are necessary to give the heating value of 1 ton of 
coal. This puts sycamore in the class of red gum and soft maple. 
No statistics are available on the amount of sycamore used for fuel. 
Since the tree is so widely distributed and is quite prevalent along 
streams and on overflow land which can not be cultivated, and 
since, moreover, the wood is not especially difficult to convert into 
cordwood and is a satisfactory fuel wood, considerable quantities 
are doubtless used locally by farmers for this purpose. 
LUMBER AND TIMBER VALUES. 
LUMBER PRICES. 
The average value of sycamore lumber f. o. b. mills is secured by 
the Forest Service from manufacturers' reports on annual lumber 
production. This value is given, by States and years, in Table 7. 
Table 7. — Average value of sycamore lumber per 1,000 board feet /. o. b. mills, in different 
States, for different years. 
State. 
United States. 
Arkansas 
Indiana 
Tennessee 
West Virginia . . 
Kentucky 
Ohio 
Missouri 
Illinois 
Virginia 
Mississippi 
Oklahoma 
North Carolina. 
Maryland 
Louisiana 
Georgia -.. 
South Carolina. 
Pennsylvania. . . 
Michigan 
Iowa 
Alabama 
New York 
Texas 
Kansas 
Connecticut.... 
New Jersey 
$11. 04 
9.49 
12.05 
9.75 
12.00 
11.20 
12.55 
9.74 
10.19 
11.49 
10.00 
14.00 
11.33 
15.00 
15.36 
13.28 
1904 
$13. 16 
9.49 
14.26 
12.65 
11.05 
14.65 
12.81 
14.13 
14.36 
11.53 
12.00 
18.71 
21.32 
20.00 
10.43 
1907 
$14. 58 
13. 10 
16.71 
14.70 
14.42 
13.14 
16.92 
12.43 
15.25 
11.54 
10.00 
13.88 
15.82 
18.00 
11.00 
8.00 
16.95 
15.74 
20.00 
1908 
$14. 67 
12.78 
17.78 
12.67 
15.24 
13.33 
16.46 
13.01 
13.60 
12. 35 
11.75 
12.81 
10.00 
10.53 
12.51 
15.00 
14. 59 
17.41 
19.00 
10.00 
16. 00 
14.59 
30.00 
1909 
$14. 77 
15.27 
17.20 
13.15 
13.48 
12.87 
18.08 
13.12 
14.94 
10.91 
14.30 
12.52 
11.44 
11.67 
12.11 
14.74 
13.10 
15.01 
16.35 
22.73 
12.76 
17.00 
16.00 
19.90 
17.47 
1910 
$14. 10 
12.81 
16.65 
12.21 
13.75 
11.65 
17.38 
13.37 
14.68 
12.45 
12.40 
13.75 
13.92 
12.00 
11.56 
15.75 
16.27 
18.63 
14.00 
15.00 
15.13 
16.67 
1911 
$13. 16 
12.21 
15.19 
12.04 
11.66 
15.02 
12.05 
16.93 
11.67 
12.31 
14.15 
12.20 
11.50 
13.87 
14.33 
18.50 
9.13 
$13. 86 
13.72 
14.36 
12.66 
15.73 
13.17 
15.53 
14.55 
14.88 
11.28 
12.11 
11.83 
12.03 
11.37 
14.00 
15.97 
19.58 
17.21 
13.57 
16.00 
14.02 
15.00 
16.50 
$14. 65 
12.73 
18.15 
12.51 
17.15 
14.48 
18.53 
14.10 
14.23 
9.45 
15.47 
13.57 
11. 68 
11.29 
14.25 
16.22 
13.65 
17.68 
18.27 
19.67 
13.97 
20.00 
15.00 
17.50 
14.50 
17.50 
1917 
$18. 68 
16.28 
22.01 
20.97 
16.59 
16.64 
21.13 
16. 55 
23.62 
15.69 
16.94 
17.10 
16.93 
14.47 
19.08 
18.56 
16. 00 
17.40 
22.34 
21.25 
21.40 
17.75 
19. 46 
15.00 
18.00 
35.00 
1918 
$23. 59 
23.29 
29.05 
22.12 
20.26 
21.35 
26.80 
19.48 
23.04 
20.05 
24.63 
20.11 
24.24 
21.93 
23.98 
24.21 
24.00 
26.64 
25.00 
25.00 
21.16 
19.44 
22.51 
16.50 
32.19 
40. 00 
