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BULLETIN 1119^ U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 13. — Reported production of maple ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 875,000 M feet.] 
State. 
United States 
Michigan 
Wisconsin 
New York 
West Virginia 
Pennsylvania 
Indiana 
Ohio 
Vermont 
Missouri 
New Hampshire 
AU other States (see Table 37, p. 56) 
Number 
of active 
nulls 
reporting. 
4. 131 
212 
264 
857 
186 
454 
310 
342 
197 
105 
82 
1,122 
Quantity reported. 
M feetb.m. 
768,345 
279, 911 
188, 252 
72, 724 
56,630 
39, 194 
26,664 
21,817 
17, 759 
8,679 
7,702 
49,013 
Per cent. 
100.0 
36.4 
24.5 
9.5 
7.4 
5.1 
3.5 
2.8 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.miU. 
$50. 16 
54.04 
49. 77 
48. 38 
57. 26 
47. 01 
47. 87 
40. 01 
41.10 
40.99 
34. 32 
39. 62 
1 Sugar (or hard) maple {Acer saccharum) is cut principally in the Northern States. Silver (or soft) 
maple {A. saccharinum) is also cut in the Northern States. Red (or soft) maple (A . rubrum) is the priuci- 
Eal species cut in the Southern States. Broadleaf maple {A . macrophyUum) is cut in the Pacific coast 
tates. 
Table 14. — Reported production oj gum ^ lumber in 1920. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 850,000 M. feet.] 
Number 
Quantity reported. 
Average 
State. 
of active 
mills 
value per 
1,000 feet 
reporting. 
M feetb.m 
Per cent. 
f. o.b.mill. 
United States 
2,060 
6^, 745 
100.0 
$35.24 
Arkansas 
288 
194, 981 
28.5 
36. 79 
Mississippi 
232 
147, 781 
21.6 
34.86 
Louisiana 
103 
125,944 
18.4 
35.79 
Teimessee 
234 
52, 821 
7.7 
34.47 
Alabama 
162 
33, 700 
4.9 
29.46 
South CaroUna 
34 
20, 483 
3.0 
35. 29 
Texas 
55 
18, 033 
2.6 
36.33 
Georgia 
49 
17,991 
2.6 
35.51 
Missouri 
60 
17,304 
2 5 
37.08 
Virginia 
143 
12,607 
1.8 
27.88 
North Carolina 
105 
8,687 
1.3 
26.56 
Kentucky 
171 
7,417 
1.1 
28.48 
Florida 
7 
7,255 
1.1 
34.45 
Oklahoma 
6 
6,546 
1.0 
54. 60 
All other States (see Table 37, p. 56) 
411 
13, 195 
1.9 
32.23 
1 Red gum (Liqutdambar styraciflua) is the only species that goes into red gum lumber. Commercial sap 
gum is the sapwood of the red gum. 
