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BULLETIN 506, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
SED OAKS. 
Eed oak (Quercus oorealis) is the red oak common in the eastern 
half of the United States, except in the Gulf States. 
Texan red oak (Quercus texana) furnishes the main supply of red 
oak lumber in the lower Mississippi Valley. 
Pin oak (Quercus palustris) occurs in many Eastern and Central 
States. 
Scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea) is a northern and northeastern 
tree. 
Yellow (or black) oak (Quercus vehitina) is found in most States 
east of the Rocky Mountains. 
"Willow oak (Quercus phellos) is of commercial importance in the 
Southern States onlv. 
Table 7. — Reported production of oak Uunber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 2,970,000 M feet b.m.] 
State. 
Principal species cut. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b.m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
United States 
9,517 
2, 070, 444 
100.0 
SI 8. 73 
White, red, chestnut 
White, Texan 
West Virginia 
483 
439 
5S4 
747 
929 
593 
835 
709 
388 
268 
417 
88 
291 
86 
157 
128 
639 
223 
223 
142 
1,148 
291, 261 
223, 752 
222, 964 
210, 965 
165, 592 
128, 562 
125, 581 
97, 014 
95,435 
89,469 
80, 289 
74,304 
37, OSS 
32, 564 
24, 348 
22,660 
21,617 
20,467 
13, 658 
13, 155 
79, 699 
14.1 
10.8 
10.8 
10.2 
8.0 
6.2 
6.1 
4.7 
4.6 
4.3 
3.9 
3.6 
1.8 
1.6 
1.2 
1.1 
1.0 
1.0 
.6 
.6 
3.8 
19.03 
18.40 
White, red 
18.79 
do 
19.62 
Virginia 
Ohio 
White, red, chestnut 
do 
16.64 
21.46 
do 
19.73 
do 
16.42 
Missouri 
Mississippi 
Indiana 
White, red, Texan 
White, Texan 
16.51 
18.61 
White, red 
22.58 
White, Texan 
18.48 
do 
15. 68 
do 
16.72 
Maryland 
White, red, chestnut 
White, red 
17.37 
19.15 
....do 
19.70 
Georgia.. 
White, Texan 
16.06 
White, red 
21.96 
do. 
24. 03 
All other "States (see Summary, 
p. 40). 
WHITE PINE. 
Under " white pine " is included the common white pine of the 
North and the western, or Idaho, white pine. There are also included 
Norway pine and jack pine, which are lumbered with white pine in 
the Lake States and eastward, and for which the mills can not 
readily give separate figures. The scientific names and commercial 
range of these species are as follows: 
