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BULLETIN 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The several woods which go to make up the bulk of the lumber cut 
in the United States are treated individually in the following pages. 
The tabulation for each species shows by States the number of active 
mills reporting, the quantity reported cut, the proportion of the total 
reported cut, the average value per thousand feet f . o. b. mill, and the 
computed total cut. The average values given in the tables are the 
weighted averages of about 55 per cent of the 16,420 mills which 
reported then- cut, and accurately reflect the true value of the several 
species of lumber at the mill. The variation in values for the same 
BILLIONS OF BOARD FEET 
2 3 A- 5 6 7 8 9 10 II 12 13 14- 
YELLOW PINE 
DOUGLAS FIR. 
OAK- 
WHITE PINE 
HEMLOCK. — 
WESTERN YELLOW PINE 
SPRUCE 
CYPRESS 
MAPLE 
GUM (RED AND SAP) 
REDWOOD 
BIRCH. 
CHESTNUT 
LARCH 
YELLOW POPLAR 
BEECH 
CEDAR 
TUPELO. 
WHITE FIR 
ELM _ 
BA5SW00D 
COTTONWOOD. 
ASH 
SUGAR PINE... 
HICKORY......... I 
BALSAM FIR 
WALNUT. 
SYCAMORE.. 
LODGEPOLE PINE. 
ALL OTHER KINDS. 
Fig. 3.— Computed total lumber production in 1917, by kinds of woods. 
wood in different States is caused by character of timber, type of 
manufacture, and distance from market. 
The question is frequently asked in connection with lumber pro- 
duction figures as to what part shortleaf pine forms of the total 
quantity of yellow pine reported, or the per cent of white oak cut to 
the total. It is not practicable in the lumber census work to do more 
than group the figures for all of the yellow pines together, and treat 
the oaks, gums, cedars, and other woods in the same way since no 
standard classification is found among the lumbermen. Producers 
in one section frequently apply a local name to a given species and 
only confusion would follow an attempt to segregate the figures. 
