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BULLETIN 
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
CYPRESS. 
Cypress was less seriously- affected by the general slump in pro- 
duction than many other woods and the cut of 917,445,000 feet was 
but 3 per cent, or 28,000,000 feet, under that for 1916. In Louisiana, 
which milled 56 per cent of all the cypress cut in 1917, the output 
of 509,659,000 feet was 17,766,000 feet, or 3 per cent, less than in 
1916; and in Florida the cut of 166,857,000 feet was 21,942,000 feet, 
or 12 per cent, under that of 1916. In South Carolina the total cut 
was enlarged and the State displaced Georgia in third place among 
the producing States. The cut reported in Arkansas and Missouri 
also was slightly more in 1917 than the year before. 
The average value of cypress for 1917, $23.92, is an advance of 
$3.07, or 15 per cent, over the preceding year, and the spread is 
noticeably less than for many of the other woods. 
Table 15. — Reported production of cypress 1 lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 950,000,000 feet.] 
United States. 
Louisiana 
Florida 
South Carolina. 
Georgia 
Arkansas 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
654 
Missouri 
Mississippi 
North Carolina 
Tennessee 
Virginia 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39) . 
36 
37 
31 
135 
44 
91 
73 
44 
15 
51 
Quantity 
reported. 
Feet B. 31. 
917,445,000 
509, 659, 000 
166,857,000 
59,107,000 
51,219,000 
43,969,000 
26,981,000 
16,537,000 
15,958,000 
10,003,000 
9,539,000 
7.616,000 
Percent. 
100.0 
55.6 
18.2 
6.5 
5.6 
4.8 
2.9 
1.8 
1.7 
1.1 
1.0 
.8 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o. b.mill. 
$23. 92 
24.43 
24.51 
25.90 
26.05 
21.88 
19.63 
24.14 
20.69 
25.63 
21.87 
21.32 
1 Bald cypress ( Taxodium distichum) is the one species cut as such. 
MAPLE. 
The quantity of maple reported sawed was less by approximately 
1 per cent than in 1916. The three principal producing States, 
Michigan, Wisconsin, and West Virginia, produced within 11,000,000 
feet as much as in 1916, and slight increases in output occurred 
among the mills in Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri. The production of 
maple has not varied to any marked degree during the last 10 ye^rs. 
The average value of $23.16 per 1,000 feet is an increase above 
the average of $18.24 obtained in 1916 of $4.92 per 1,000 feet, or 
27 per cent. 
