2 BULLETIN 506, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
This bulletin is one of a series issued annually, covering the 
years 1905 to 1915, inclusive, with the exception of 1911. Data 
for that year were compiled by the Bureau of the Census in coop- 
eration with the Forest Service, and the totals announced early in 
1916. A detailed summary of the 1914 lumber cut is given in the 
appendix. The 1913 lumber census was conducted by the Forest 
Service in cooperation with the Bureau of Crop Estimates, and 
the results published as United States Department of Agriculture 
Bulletin No. 232. The work for the other years mentioned above, 
except 1905, was clone by the Bureau of the Census in cooperation 
with the Forest Service, and the results issued as a Forest Service 
bulletin for 1906 and as Census bulletins for 1907 to 1912, inclusive. 
The Forest Service secured the data and issued the report, for 1905. 
Statistics on lumber cut were also secured by the Census for the 
quinquennial year 1901 and decennial years 1899, 1889, etc., back to 
1850. The detailed results appear in the Census reports for those 
years. 
The Bureau of the Census discontinued annual lumber-cut sta- 
tistics after 1912 because of lack of funds, but the quinquennial 
census of manufactures covering 1911 included the lumber industry, 
with the exception of custom and very small mills. 
In securing figures for lumber production in 1915 the National 
Lumber Manufacturers' Association agreed to cooperate financially, 
provided figures on the total cut would be issued before May 1, 1916. 
This condition was fulfilled. It was necessary to rely chiefly upon 
correspondence in securing reports from the mills, and in this work 
the national association and regional associations 1 also cooperated 
heartily. The New York Conservation Commission and the New 
Jersey Department of Conservation and Development furnished the 
statistics for those States. All other States east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains were handled by the Office of Industrial Investigations, Forest 
Service, Washington, D. C, while the Western States were taken care 
of by the Forest Service district products offices at Albuquerque, Den- 
ver, Missoula, Ogden, Portland, and San Francisco. The Pennsyl- 
vania Department of Forestry, which annually compiles data on 
stumpage cut, . assisted in completing returns from Pennsylvania 
mills. "The Office of Industrial Investigations was the clearing 
house for all statistics, issued the preliminary statements giving fig- 
ures for the whole country, and prepared this bulletin. 
1 Georgia -Florida Sawmill Association. Northern Pine Association. 
Hardwood Manufacturers' Association. Southern Cypress Association. 
Michigan Hardwood Manufacturers' Asso- Southern Pine Association. 
ciation. West Coast Lumhermen's Association. 
Mississippi Pine Association. Western Pine Manufacturers' Association. 
North Carolina Pine Association. Yellow Pine Exchange (Alexandria, La.) 
Northern Hemlock & Hardwood Manufac- 
turers' Association. 
