34 
BULLETIN 768, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Despite the urgent call for black-walnut lumber, made largely by 
rifle manufacturers, production was 53,676,000 feet, or 12 per cent, 
below that of the year previous. Veneer producers were active in 
the market and many of the best logs went to these plants instead 
of to sawmills. In Missouri and in Ohio the output was greater by 
10 per cent than in the previous year, but the figures for the other 
States show a decline. 
A noteworthy jump of 72 per cent over the 1916 average value of 
walnut took place. In 1916 the value was $42.38 per 1.000 feet; in 
1917 it was 872.99. The importance attached to walnut is shown 
by the fact that its value is greater than that of any other domestic 
species. 
Table 34. — Reported production of walnut 1 lumber. 1917. 
[Computed total production in the T7nited States, 62.000,000 feet.] 
United States. 
Missouri . . 
Kentucky. 
Indiana . . . 
Ohio 
Tennessee. 
Iowa 
Illinois 
West Virginia. 
Arkansas 
\ irginia 
Pennsylvania 
North Carolina 
All other States (see Summary, p. 39). 
Number of 
active mills 
reporting. 
Quantity 
reported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
1,000 feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
FectB. M. 
1,001 
53,676,000 
100.0 
$72.99 
61 
13,373,000 
24.9 
117.77 
122 
S, 112. 000 
15.1 
44.05 
189 
7, S72, 000 
14.7 
61.92 
126 
6,656,000 
12.4 
44. 51 
115 
4 : S2S,000 
9.0 
55. S2 
31 
3,719,000 
6.9 
58.91 
23 
2,269,000 
4.2 
115. 21 
77 
887,000 
1.7 
' 37. 70 
27 
532,000 
1.0 
51.06 
52 
450,000 
4.8 
31.53 
50 
255.000 
. 5 
41.55 
43 
230.000 
.4 
32.85 
S5 
4, 493, 000 
8.4 
79.86 
1 Black walnut (Juglans nigra) is the only species cut as such. 
SYCAMORE. 
Sycamore production has run along rather evenly for 10 years. 
The 1917 cut of 28,548,000 feet was but 2 per cent more than that of 
the previous year. The Arkansas output was 17 per cent and the 
Tennessee output 32 per cent greater than in 1916. 
From 1916 to 1917 the average value of sycamore advanced from 
S14.65 to $18.68 per 1,000 feet, or 2s per cent. 
