26 BULLETIN 845, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TaBLe 16.—Reported production of gum‘ lumber, 1918. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 765,000,000 feet.] 
Number of Average 
er active Quantity re- value per 
Ba mills re- ported. | Per cent.) 7 000 feet 
porting. | f. o. b. mill, 
: Feet b. m.. | 
Untited States: oot 2 eee eh ec eee 1, 604 | 651, 545, 000 00. 0 $23. 21 
ie Wh SNE Bb ase senha RS 239 196, 359, 000 30.1 22. 64 
ASSESSED ae 185 148, 538, 000 22.8 26. 62 
BISSETT ee cee bs a eee An oe eee §2 104,514, 000 16.0 22. G2 
Wenstp See ere ae eso as ee eee 187 56, 198, 000 | 8.6 23.14 
PAS envi = ee he ae ee ee 90 | 29, 439, 000 | 4.5 20. 90 
| 
STE RR oe ne ce Se oe: Fito MATS 57 | 24,037,000 | 3.7 22.72 
WORAS ©2335. Se ees ee ee eee 51 16, 448, 000 2.5 19.53 
SDT OST Pe 2 oe ee See es eee 30 15,576, 000 2.4 21. 06 
PET OUNINS. Gest Sk ee ee ee Se ee ee ee 104 11, 036, 000 aig 18. 61 
Wentneky. 22... oo oe eee see 45 9,151,000 | 14 22. 09 
Nariiutarnlisia. 6006. 5 eee ere See on 107 | 8, 136, 000 | 13 18. 10 
Gerrit sa se eS Se eee A eee as 35 7, 723, 000 | 1.2 21.74 
Oiietaaa. eo 3 52s oo em ef oe ee 6 6, 871, 000 | i fer | 23. 70 
All other States (see Summary, p. 42).----------.---- 385 | 17,519, 000 | 2.7 24.15 
1 Red (or sweet) gum (Liguidamber styracijfiua) is the only species that goes into red-gum Inmber. Com- 
mercial sap gum is the sapwood of the red gum. 
CYPRESS. 
The falling off in cypress production was more marked than for 
any other one wood. The decrease in reported production was 
339,000,000 feet, or 37 per cent: The reported cut in 1918 was 
578,026,000 feet. The cut in Louisiana, in which State 51 per cent 
of the country’s cypress was produced, declined from 509,659,000 
feet in 1917 to 296,986,000 feet in 1918, or 42 per cent. Florida’s 
cut was 85,376,000 feet in 1918, or 49 per cent less than the 
166,857, 000 feet of the year before. South Carolina ranked third 
among the cypress-producing States in 1917, with a production of 
59,107,000 feet. In 1918 the cut dwindled to 28,898,000 feet, or 
half as much as the year before, and the State dropped into fifth 
place. In 1918, the number of mills reporting totaled 587 in com- 
parison with 654 for the preceding year. 
The average value of cypress took an upward turn of 28 per cent 
from the average of $23.92 in 1917 to $30.56 in 1918, an increase of 
$6.64 per 1,000 feet. 
