8 
BULLETIN 544, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
the maximum from New York. North Carolina, Tennessee, and Vir- 
ginia each reported $2 sales, and New York reported maximum 
price sales, $11. 
In seven of the red spruce States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, 
New York, Maryland, North Carolina, and Kentucky, there was a 
rise in stump age values from 1907 to 1912, while in the remainder 
there was a decline. Leaving out of consideration Maryland and 
Kentucky, where the number of reports is too small to form a reliable 
basis, the greatest rise took place in New York and showed a gain of 
25 per cent and 35 per cent on the basis of estimates and of sales, 
respectively. The next greatest gain was in North Carolina, where 
a rise of 21 per cent is indicated on the basis of 16 estimates. Ver- 
mont ranks third in percentage of increase; New Hampshire, fourth; 
and Maine, with the largest number of reports, shows the least in- 
crease in values, 6 per cent according to estimates and 3 per cent 
according to sales. New York also ranks first in the greatest actual 
increase, namely, $1.44 and $2, according to estimates and to sales, 
respectively, followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, North Carolina, 
and Mahie, in the order named. 
Table 3. — Stumpage values of spruce. l 
ALL SPECIES OF SPRUCE.* 
I 
1912 1907 
State. 
Average per 1,000 Average per 1,000 
feet from estimates. feet from sales. 
Average per 1,000 
feet. 
Value 
per 1,000 
board 
feet. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Value 
per 1,000 
board 
feet. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
Value 
per 1,000 
board 
feet. 
Number 
of 
reports. 
$1.54 
488 
$4.16 
175 
$4.35 
383 
EASTERN (RED) SPRUCE. 
All Eastern States 
$6.11 
236 
S5.90 
7S 
$5.53 
164 
6.50 
205 
6.32 
70 
5.93 
1 14 
6.09 
6.78 
6.82 
6.50 
7.2.5 
3.51 
102 
28 
25 
14 
36 
31 
5.93 
6.54 
6.72 
5.00 
7.81 
2.15 
37 
13 
9 
3 
8 
8 
5. 74 
6.07 
5.S7 
7.07 
5.81 
4.62 
34 
21 
Vermont 
31 
Kjhusetts 
21 
All Appalachian States 
50 
6.37 
4.50 
3.00 
4.17 
2. 52 
6.00 
2.00 
4 
3 
3 
3 
16 
1 
1 
8. 1 10 
3. 33 
3.61 
4. 63 
2. 08 
1. 63 
2, 50 
3 
2.00 
1 
9 
15 
2. 33 
6 
6 
2 
T( -nnessee 
2.00 
1 
3 
i The values per cord for pulpwood may be roughly approximated by halving those given in the table, 
although the common practice in the northern spruce country is to figure a cord equivalent to 600 boa] d 
feel . 
- 'ho census gave the average values of spruce stumpage for all States as $3.70 per 1,000 feet in 1904 and 
$2.26 per 1,000 feet in 1899. 
