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BULLETIN 768, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 21. — Reported production of larch l {tamarack) lumber, 19T\ 
[Computed total production in the United States, 360,000,000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
Montana 
Idaho 
Washington 
Wisconsin 
Minnesota 
Michigan 
Oregon 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39) 
537 
FeetB. M. 
336,640,000 
100.0 
41 
56 
48 
135 
135,734,000 
99,950,000 
34,242,000 
19,410,000 
18,217,000 
14,680,000 
13,793,000 
614,000 
40.3 
29.7 
10.2 
5.8 
5.4 
4.3 
4.1 
.2 
S16. 21 
16.38 
14.60 
13.74 
20.71 
20.56 
21.01 
14.94 
21.18 
1 Western larch (Larix occidentalis) is the species cut in the Inland Empire and the Pacific Northwest. 
Tamarack, or larch (Larix laricina), is cut in the Lake States and New England States. 
YELLOW POPLAR. 
The reported total output of yellow poplar of 325,968,000 feet was 
smaller by nearly 70,000,000 feet, or 17 per cent, than the 1916 cut. 
The decrease is consistent with the general trend of poplar production 
during the last 10 years. West Virginia's cut alone fell off 23,480,000 
feet, or 23 per cent, from the year before; and a decreased cut took 
place in most of the other States producing poplar except in Tennessee 
and Kentucky, where slight gains are recorded. 
The average mill value of $27.17 per 1,000 feet is $5.28 per 1,000, 
or 24 per cent, above the 1916 value. 
Table 22.— Reported production of yellow-poplar x lumber, 1917. 
[Computed total production in the United States, 350,000,000 feet.] 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Peropnt value per 
- nt - 1,000 feet 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States . 
2,779 
FeetB. M. 
325, 968, 000 
West Virginia. . 
Tennessee 
Kentucky 
Virginia 
North Carolina. 
Georgia 
Alabama 
Ohio 
South Carolina. 
Indiana 
Pennsylvania 
Mississippi 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39) . 
255 
429 
333 
355 
305 
87 
164 
179 
138 
198 
161 
89 
186 
79,035,000 
48,425,000 
42,205,000 
37,213,000 
29,311,000 
28,252,000 
21,519,000 
13, 252, 000 
7, 014, 000 
6, 094, 000 
4,348,000 
4,181,000 
5,119,000 
100.0 
24.2 
14.9 
12.9 
11.4 
9.0 
8.7 
6.6 
4.1 
2.1 
1.3 
1.3 
1.6 
$27.17 
30.78 
28.61 
30.84 
25.00 
21.77 
22.43 
19.87 
31.56 
20.86 
35.48 
26.44 
22.56 
22.98 
Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is the only species that goes into poplar lumber. 
