PRODUCTION/ OF LUMBER, LATH, AND SHINGLES. 
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HICKORY. 
Several species of hickory are cut for lumber in this country ; the 
wood grows naturally nowhere else in the world. The species cut 
most are shagbark {Gary a ovata), shellbark (Gary a laciniosa) , pig- 
nut {Gary a glabra), bitternut {Gary a cordiformis) , and mocker- 
nut {Gary a alba). The Lower Mississippi and the Ohio Valleys 
supply the bulk of the hickory lumber. Industries which use the 
largest quantities of hickory prefer it in the form of blanks, squares, 
or billets. It is usually more profitable to saw hickory into such 
dimension stock than into lumber. Since in each of the principal 
producing States all the commercial hickories are cut, no segrega- 
tion by species can be indicated in the table. 
Table 28. — Reported production of hickory lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 100,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
Quantity 
reported, 
Mfeet 
b. m. 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o.b. 
mill. 
United States 
Arkansas 
Tennessee 
West Virginia 
Kentucky 
Indiana 
Ohio 
Missouri 
Pennsylvania 
Louisiana , 
Mississippi 
All other States (see Summary, p. 40) 
2,526 
>,015 
100.0 
144 
205 
205 
181 
274 
312 
120 
264 
15 
51 
13, 443 
11, 933 
9,372 
8,708 
7,150 
6,851 
5,236 
4,453 
3,770 
3,220 
11, 879 
15.6 
13.9 
10.9 
10.1 
8.3 
8.0 
6.1 
5.2 
4.4 
3.7 
13.8 
?23. 35 
23.76 
24.08 
21.81 
22.21 
26.29 
24.07 
27.03 
20.04 
24.35 
23.10 
WALNUT. 
Walnut lumber is cut from the common black walnut (Juglans 
nigra,), which grows throughout the eastern half of the country, but 
is most available in the Central States. Values for walnut were 
higher in 1915 than for previous years, and the cut therefore greater. 
The demand for gunstock material accounts for this. In Illinois 
practically all of the walnut reported was cut by two or three mills 
which specialized on gunstocks, and so the average value for Illinois 
is higher than for other States, where the larger number of mills 
reporting included many cutting low grade lumber only. 
