PRODUCTION OF LUMBEK ; LATH ; AKD SHINGLES. 23 
CHESTNUT. 
Only one species of chestnut (Castanea dentata) is native in the 
United States. It is lumbered throughout most of its range in the 
Central and Eastern States. The chestnut-bark disease, or chestnut 
blight, which has killed much of the timber north of the Potomac 
Hirer, is now invading the more valuable Appalachian forests. 
Blight-killed chestnut timber, utilized before it deteriorates on the 
stump, is suitable for all purposes for which chestnut is used. 
Table 15. — Reported production of chestnut lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 490,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
United States 
West Virginia 
Pennsylvania 
North Carolina. 
Virginia 
Tennessee 
Connecticut 
Kentucky 
Massachusetts 
Maryland 
New York 
New Jersey 
All other States (see Summary, p. 40) 
3,266 
334 
691 
175 
355 
284 
111 
249 
134 
87 
435 
127 
284 
.399,473 
100.0 
117,989 
54, 388 
40,876 
35, 573 
28,484 
27,351 
15, 508 
15, 138 
14, 191 
13,425 
13, 301 
23,249 
13.6 
10.2 
8.9 
7.1 
3.8 
3.6 
3.4 
3.3 
5.8 
S16. 17 
15.93 
16.42 
15.58 
15.31 
15.16 
17.03 
15.67 
16.32 
14. 15 
18.89 
19.91 
YELLOW POPLAR. 
Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera), a single species, is also 
known as whitewood, poplar, or tulip poplar. The best-known 
trade name is simply poplar. The Appalachian States constitute 
the principal producing region. 
Table 16. — Reported production of yelloiv-poplar lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 464,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
United States 
3,046 
377, 386 
100.0 
$22.45 
West Virginia 
295 
364 
415 
438 
319 
244 
129 
93 
749 
100, 863 
49, 154 
46, 129 
40,899 
33,168 
29, 175 
22, 808 
20,343 
34. 847 
26.7 
13.0 
12.2 
10.9 
8.8 
7.7 
6.1 
5.4 
9.2 
24.90 
Kentucky 
23 24 
22 82 
20 30 
19 71 
Ohio 
27 76 
Alabama t 
18.25 
Georgia 
19 36 
All other States (see Summary, p. 40) 
