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BULLETIN 
U. S. BEPARTVIEXT OF AGBICULTURE. 
REDWOOD. 
Redwood production was maintained in 1917 on the same scale as 
for the preceding year, the reported total output of 487,458,000 feet 
being less than 1 per cent smaller than that for 1916. The produc- 
tion figure given is believed to cover approximately all of the red- 
wood cut. 
An exceptional advance of 51 per cent is noted in the average mill 
value over the previous year. The value reported was $21 per 
1,000 feet in 1917, a jump of $7.07 from 1916. 
Table IS.— Reported production of redwood 1 lumber, 1917. 
Number of 
active mills 
1 reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States - 36 
FatB. M. 
487.458,000 
100.0 
$21.00 
California ■ 36 i 487, 45S, 000 
100.0 
. 21.00 
1 Redwood (Sequoia semperwrens) is the species chiefly cut. Bigtree [Sequoia icashingtoniana) furnishes 
a minor part of the redwood production. 
BIRCH. 
The reported total cut of birch, amounting to 387,283,000 feet, 
was an increase of 6 per cent over the 1916 cYit, and was occasioned 
by the heightened war demands. Wisconsin and Michigan, the two 
principal birch-producing States, increased their output over the pre- 
ceding year by 16 per cent and 4 per cent, respectively. The com- 
bined output of the two States formed 65.3 per cent of all birch 
reported cut in 1916 and 69.9 per cent in 1917. The number of mills 
which reported cutting birch in Wisconsin and Michigan in 1917 was 
367 and for the preceding year 410. Vermont's increase in cut from 
22,980,000 feet in 1916 to 30,882,000 feet in 1917 puts that State in 
third instead of fifth place in the rank of producing States. 
The average value of $24.07 per 1,000 feet reported for birch is 
$4.48, or 23 per cent, over the 1916 value. 
Table 19. — Reported production of birch l lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 415,000.000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills! 
reporting. 
renorted. 
United States . 
FeetB. M. 
1,836 387,283,000 
Wisconsin. 
Michigan.. 
Vermont . . 
Maine. 
West Virginia 
New York 
Pennsylvania 
New Hampshire . . 
Minnesota 
All other States (sc 
Summary, p. 39) 
226 
141 
202 
150 
107 
358 
196 
98 
48 
310 
208.864,000 
61.768,000 
30'. 882, 000 
21, 713, 000 
18, 960, 000 
17,62S,000 
7.535,000 
6. 344, 000 
4; 395^ 000 
9. 194, 000 
Per cent. 
1(30. 
53.9 
16.0 
8.0 
5.6 
4.9 
4.6 
1.9 
1.6 
1.1 
2.4 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o.b.rmil. 
S24.07 
24.21 
24.74 
25.98 
21.44 
25.02 
24.93 
20. 09 
20.86 
18.26 
20.92 
1 Yellow birch (Betulalutca)isx'ae principal species cut in the La£e States, New England, and New York. 
Paper birch (Betula papyri/era) and white (or gray) birch {Be tula populifolia) are also cut to a limited 
extent in New England. 
Sweet (or cherry) birch (Betula lenta) is cut in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. 
River (or red) birch (Betula nigra) is cut in the Southern States. 
