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Taste 8.—Rank of the different States in amount of ash lumber produced in 
the year 1899 and the years 1904 to 1915, inclusive—Continued. 
Rank. 1911 ; 1912 | 1913- 1914 1915 
| Saar ORION ae oeeienes Ohiozer es eee | INARSINGE So sc sackace Louisiana ......- Arkansas. 
i AT INTC ANSAS eee etereeie oe PARKATISAS se 3 cf siecle. Tennessee........- Tennessee....--- Tennessee. 
Lae ijn henna es ok ee Bee iaxyenie war 3 Lee HOUISIANA Da ee ee Arkamnsas......-- Louisiana. 
Aer ake i i AleRemmeSSe@s sy ass pe Iam ae ee Wisconsin.......}| Wisconsin 
eeisee ee Wisconsinitss le Ohio nee ae New York.....- Indiana. 
6h WOUISTANA)» 2545. Wisconsin...-....- findianaee eee Ohio. 
keer Michicameae see MiSSO Unies eee ae |e OO RTO eee Michigan. 
(let ae Pennsylvania..... INewevOnkee sees Michigan........ Mississippi. 
OR ase MisSSOUnIE ea ce emahNe ws: VOnDkaccc. ce. Mississippi-........ Mississippi. .---- New York. 
Ses San Pennsylvania..... Kon ue kaye esos West Virginia..... Pennsylvania...| Kentucky. 
TG aes West Virginia..... Mississippi.......- Kentic@kyss-2 eens West Virginia. ..| West Virginia. 
eps oe Kentucky SS GHOeE West Virginia..... Michigan. ssn North Carolina. .| Pennsylvania. 
oS: Mississippi.......- Oklahoma........- Pennsylvania won ee Missouri.........} Missouri. 
7h UR at ea Wiermont= ae ao 5 INGISSOUTI See ee Wilkin seceteeounea. HhnOse eee Texas. 
ies ORAS rem aere seis sai North Carolina..-.| Nexaso.2 5222s). Kentucky......- North Carolina. 
1622 North Carolina....| Virginia........... GeOrciaee es ae Wermontieece oe: Vermont. 
[1 eet @klahomas.ces. ce - Werntont:=s2eee es VELMONE sos sse Rexgseer sean Georgia. 
| epee ee Minnesota......... REaS eee mne acs South Carolina....| Virginia......... Lilinois. 
(ore? IN@ine seas ..-| Minnesota.........| North Carolina....| Georgia.........| Minnesota. 
Se ees Wairciniaess 92553 Maines cn ye as se Ri Onid ate es Minnesota......- Florida. 
Fh eee ere an anio se eee Georgiaseene ne: UTM OTS eee Oxklahoma.......| South Carolina. 
D2 ele. iM OIS ys tee LITO 8 Soe eon Wireeaniey. 5 <= ee South Carolina..| Alabama. 
Doha ae GeOnei aes ee ADAM ase eee Minnesota.......-- iMinimesne ue ee Maine. 
DARE FES Connecticut...2... New Hampshire ..| Alabama.......... Alabama......-- Virginia. 
Dh eaes Massachusetts... . Massachusetts... - New Hampshire ..| Massachusetts...] New Hampshire. 
268-2522 ours Carolina... Cennecticut....... Massachusetts. .... New Hampshire | Massachusetts. 
ee ee New Hampshire .. we Oregon eee aces Connecticut.....-- Connecticut. -..-- Oklahoma. 
28) Seem Maryland Se. 2:2 South Carolina....| Oklahoma......... HIOTIGaY: ee Connecticut. 
PA) eee IEG FS a el Ae ay Mamyiandinnss sees: Californias sso cee Orecona se ee New Jersey. 
30 sees New Jersey.....-- HOW Be HR eae Ren oe Rhode Island....-- Rhode Tsland...| Iowa. 
Sie eee PlOnMdass eet! Ploridae 2 aoe. s Orezonts Case New Jersey....- Maryland. 
Bee ke Calitormiaglar2s 2: - Rhode Island..... lowas-2 ee Maryland......- Oregon. 
Rese es Oregoneio eos Cahifornia.. 9=.5 3. -- Maryland ese ROW See oe Washington. 
Sie ae. Washington..._..- New Jersey......- New Jersey....-.- Washington... Rhode island. 
Ses es Rhode Island... ... Washington...._.. Delaware...-..._.. Delaware......-- Delaware. 
SOPs Kansas, andm Neu) kansas ,and, Ne- | Kansas. andi) New |- > ss. cnesscaonc|-eae oeee Be ea aie 
braska. braska, praska. | 
Suara South Dakota...-- Welawaned. see eC EEE a Bae Ree pile Pp ig a lk 88 Se ee be errr eater 
SO) a Se | Sa WALCee eA eee ee et he. ERAS eS eee rage ee RRR | _ aoe 
These changes indicate the waning importance of old growth as 
compared with second growth. The Heel ne in total production is a 
result of the inability ca the second growth to keep pace with the 
annual eut. This conditicn will be increasingly marked as the supply 
of cold growth disappears. Since 1912 the lower Mississippi Valley 
States, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee, which cut about half 
and half from old and young growth, have Woe in the lead. 
Table 9 indicates the propertion of the ash lumber cut contributed 
by different regions in the United States for the years 1899, 1909, 
1910, 1912, and 1914. It shows a great decrease in the amount ia oh 
lumber cut in the Lake States, which was chiefly from virgin supplhes 
of black ash, and a great increase in the sup pply from the lower Mis- 
sissippi Valley States,’ chiefly from green ash, both second and old 
growth, on neal y good agricultural land which will ultimately 
be cleared for farming. New England, the Middle States, and the 
Central States, where the supply is chiefly from second-growth white 
ash on more or less permanent woodlots, are holding their own or 
increasing in the proportion which they contribute to the ash lumber 
output. 
1Tf the cut of ash for cooperage stock were added to the lumber cut, the LOSES 
Mississippi Valley States would be BOIS CSE EIS further in the lead. 
