BULLETIN 884, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
LUMBER PRODUCTION. 
Table 4 gives the reported production of s}xamore lumber for 
different years by States. According to these figures, there has been 
a decided decrease in the cut in recent years. The decrease is not 
so great as appears from the figures, however, since the census 
reports subsequent to 1909 are not so complete as for that year, and 
a large number of small mills by which much of the supply of syca- 
more lumber is produced are not included in the later reports. 
There is considerable fluctuation in the amounts of sycamore 
lumber produced by the same State in successive years. This is 
due, in part, to the transportation of logs by streams which form 
boundaries of different States in the sycamore region, the logs going 
sometimes to a mill in one State and sometimes to a mill in another 
State. The variation is also probably due to an irregularity in the 
supply, since the timber, being confined so largely to river bottoms, 
is logged mainly as timber operations chance to be carried on in such 
situations. 
CONSUMPTION OF SYCAMORE. 
Little sycamore is used in the rough for such purposes as building 
construction, ties, etc. It goes principally, therefore, to factories 
for the manufacture of various products. Considerable amounts are 
doubtless cut into firewood, but statistics are not available to show 
the extent of this use. Sycamore is widely distributed, and much of 
it is applied to general farm uses, although many other woods are 
more valuable for such purposes. 
Table 5. — Number of mills reporting lumber cut of 
arranged in order of lumber cut 
sycamore in the different States, 
in 1918. 
State. 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 
1915 
1916 
1917 
1918 
Total. 
1,505 
2,079 
2,964 
12,325 
1,904 2,211 
659 
603 
876 
931 
904 
775 
25 
379 
113' 
233 
206 
217 
a 
248 
a 
a 
a 
51 
476 
125 
286 
270 
230 
17 
301 
"■"47" 
42 
6 
29 
11 
47 
65 
49 
3 
a 
a 
6 
83 
633 
201 
501 
357 
279 
29 
338 
6 
80 
86 
10 
36 
22 
72 
95 
40 
27 
4 
a 
3 
58 
440 
149 
410 
277 
199 
30 
327 
4 
67 
75 
19 
29 
14 
68 
70 
33 
17 
4 
a 
a 
( 2 ) 
7 
60 
370 
111 
373 
234 
167 
11 
254 
3 
50 
51 
8 
16 
14 
41 
54 
32 
16 
4 
3 
4 
a 
a 
a 
62 
383 
142 
415 
274 
209 
15 
303 
6 
60 
59 
13 
26 
18 
50 
68 
. 42 
18 
5 
3 
7 
a 
a 
a 
31 
129 
37 
140 
70 
64 
4 
84 
3 
15 
14 
6 
5 
a 
7 
8 
7 
17 
a 
3 
3 
3 
a 
3.1 
146 
41 
66 
76 
65 
8 
48 
6 
33 
12 
3 
19 
9 
5 
11 
9 
5 
....... 
a 
4 
42 
199 
80 
104 
105 
47 
10 
94 
7 
17 
31 
6 
29 
13 
8 
24 
17 
16 
3 
a 
a 
3 
4 
a 
55 
204 
74 
95 
111 
48 
14 
107 
10 
18 
27 
7 
24 
16 
13 
32 
27 
21 
a 
5 
a 
8 
a 
59 
198 
93 
87 
109 
43 
32 
88 
14 
14 
37 
10 
19 
12 
10 
23 
17 
14 
a 
7 
a 
9 
a 
54 
Indiana . 
157 
Tennessee. 
74 
Missouri 
71 
Ohio ... 
100 
Illinois 
38 
27 
Kentucky 
93 
Louisiana 
12 
Oklahoma 
14 
Virginia 
25 
Georgia 
6 
Maryland 
a 
18 
Alabama 
9 
Michigan 
a 
a 
a 
a 
13 
West Virginia 
21 
Pennsylvania 
11 
North Carolina 
11 
Texas 
a 
South Carolina 
a 
a 
5 
Connecticut 
3 
New York 
a 
New Jersey 
5 
4 
3 
Florida 
a 
a 
a 
a 
a 
a 
Vermont 
a 
22 
a 
6 
Iowa 
.7 
a 
6 
51 
3 
4 
21 
3 
4 
23 
3 
a 
3 
6 
a 
12 
8 
3 
4 
9 
a 
7 
7 
Kansas 
3 
All other States 3 
84 
3 
5 
5 
i Not including New Y r ork. 
2 Number of mills cutting this species not reported. 
Including those marked "a." 
