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BULLETIN 673, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The reported production of yellow pine in 1916 was 13,411,411,000 
feet, an increase of 1,234,076,000 feet, or approximately 10 per cent 
over 1915. Increased production is in evidence in all the States 
listed with, the exception of Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and 
Kentucky, where decreased output is recorded. The only change in 
the relative rank as producing States was in the displacement of 
Arkansas by Alabama in fifth position, due to a greater output in the 
latter State by approximately 157,000,000 feet without any material 
difference in production in Arkansas. Reports were received from 
6,592 active mills in 1916 as contrasted with 6,006 in 1915. 
The computed total production of yellow pine in the United States 
is nearly 2.5 per cent greater for 1916 than for the preceding year — ■ 
15,055,000,000 feet as against 14,700,000,000 feet. 
There was an advance in the average value from $12.41 per 1,000 
feet in 1915 to $14.33 in 1916. 
Table 7. — Reported production of yellow pine lumber, 1916. 
(Computed total production in United States, 15,055,000,000 feet b. m.) 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet, 
f.o.b.nnll. 
United States 
6,592 
Feet 6. m. 
13,411,411,000 
100.0 
S14. 33 
Louisiana 
236 
497 
272 
1, 322 
693 
410 
214 
437 
995 
699 
4S 
247 
125 
91 
101 
205 
3,063,468,000 
1,963,285,000 
1,649,334,000 
1,232,849,000 
1,180,318,000 
1, 075, 973, 000 
976,516,000 
643, 586, 000 
632,649,000 
621, 419, 000 
207, 501, 000 
42, 697, 000 
28, 786, 000 
26,851,000 
12,633,000 
53, 546, 000 
22.9 
14.6 
12.3 
9.2 
8.8 
8.0 
7.3 
4.8 
4.7 
4.6 
1.6 
.3 
.2 
.2 
.1 
.4 
14.89 
14.77 
T exas 
15.22 
North Carolina 
13.20 
Alabama. 
13.06 
15. 26 
Florida 
13. 85 
South Carolina 
13.67 
Virginia 
13.96 
Georgia 
12.96 
13. S2 
Tennessee 
13.11 
13.73 
Missouri 
13.21 
Kentucky 
15.01 
DOUGLAS FIR. 
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxijolia), which is the principal commer- 
cial species of the Western States and of which more exists in standing 
timber than any other one species, was produced to the extent of 
5,413,431,000 feet, nearly one and one-quarter billion feet (31.33 
per cent) more than in 1915. The quantity cut approaches the 
record of five and one-half billion feet made in 1913. A feature of 
the 1916 figures is the increase in Oregon over 1915 of more than 100 
in the number of active mills and nearly 500,000,000 feet in the cut; 
the State's proportion of the total quantity cut grew from 27.2 per 
cent to 29 per cent. 
