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BULLETIN 768, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
showing an increased cut for 1917. It is worthy of note that Indiana, 
where the manufacture of oak has been carried on for generations 
and where a decreased output could logically be looked for, reported 
a cut of 85,210,000 feet, as compared with 83,674,000 feet in 1916. 
The average value of oak rose from $20.06 per 1,000 feet in 1916 
to $24.49 in 1917, an increase of 22 per cent. 
Table 10. — Reported production of oak 1 lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 2,250,000,000 feet.] 
United States 
West Virginia 
Tennessee. 
Arkansas 
Kentucky 
Virginia 
North Carolina 
Missouri 
Mississippi 
Ohio 
Pennsylvania 
Indiana 
Louisiana 
Alabama 
Texas 
New York 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39; 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
420 
759 
421 
553 
834 
854 
320 
262 
476 
412 
96 
347 
86 
621 
Quantitv 
reported. 
Feet B. M. 
1,967,694,000 
242,415,000 
237,574,000 
235,763,000 
170,469.000 
169,725,000 
115,749,000 
112,897,000 
111,751,000 
90.561,000 
85,779,000 
85,210,000 
70,538,000 
38,363,000 
36,829,000 
22, 592 000 
141,479,000 
Percent. 
100.0 
12.3 
12.1 
12.0 
5.9 
5.7 
5.7 
4.6 
4.3 
4.3 
3.6 
1.9 
1.9 
1.3 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.mill. 
324.49 
25.37 
26.07 
24.05 
25.80 
19.98 
19.27 
20.87 
25.00 
29.17 
26.10 
34.81 
23.48 
17.84 
21.06 
28.66 
24.03 
1 Commercially the oaks are classed as white and red. The principal commercial oaks are listed below: 
White oaks: 
White oak (Quercus alba) is the white oak common throughout the easternhalf of the United States. 
Chestnut (or rock) oak (Quercus prinus) is found in the Appalachian region. 
Post oak (Quercus minor) and bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) are common throughout the eastern half 
of the country. 
Overcup oak (Quercus lyrata) and cow (or basket) oak (Quercus michauxii) are the principal southern 
white oaks. 
Red oaks: 
Red oak (Quercus rubra) is the red oak common to the eastern part of the United States. 
Texan red oak (Quercus texana) is the principal red oak sawed in the lower Mississippi Valley. 
Pin oak (Quercus palustris) is found in the Eastern and Central States. 
Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) is the northern and northeastern red oak. 
Yellow (orblack) oak (Quercus velutina) is common to most States east of the Rocky Mountains. 
Willow oak (Quercus vhellos) is cut mostly in the Southern States. 
WHITE PINE. 
The output of white pine in 1917, like that of other softwoods, 
was smaller than for the previous year. The total reported produc- 
tion of 2,050,360,000 feet showed a decrease of 12 per cent. The 
cut was the smallest of which there is record. The reduced cut is 
consistently shown by all of the States, the greatest reduction for 
any one State being that shown for Idaho of 110,651,000 feet, or 
36 per cent. Minnesota's mills put out 41 per cent of all the white 
pine reported cut in 1916 and 44 per cent in 1917; Idaho's share was 
13 per cent in the 1916 total and 9 per cent in 1917. Maine, where 
many generations of lumbermen have developed the white pine 
industry, displaced Idaho in second place in the rank of producing 
