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BULLETIN 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
ging sections. The computed total cut of the country, however, is 
1,000,000,000 feet, which is 9 per cent less than for 1915. 
The average f. o. b. mill value advanced from $19.85 in 1915 to 
$20.85 per 1,000 feet in 1916. 
Table 14. — Reported production of cypress lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 1,000,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Avei 
value per 
M feet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States. 
Louisiana 
Florida 
Georgia 
South Carolina 
Arkansas 
Missouri 
North Carolina 
Mississippi 
All other States (see summary, p. 38). 
726 
Feet b. m. 
945,350,000 
100.0 
$20. 85- 
97 
42 
64 
38 
137 
50 
90 
74 
134 
425,000 | 
799,000 
305,000 
810,000 
34?; 000 
555,000 
500,000 
417,000 
172,000 
55.8 
20.0 
5.8 
4; 7 
3.8 
2.7+ 
2.7- 
1.8 
2.7 
21.45 
22.24 
20.06 
17.14 
18.02 
16.55 
15.65 
22.18 
MAPLE. 
Hard or sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and silver maple (Acer 
saccTiarinum) are the two species chiefly lumbered in the Northern 
States, and red maple (Acer ruhrum) in the Southern States. 
The quantity actually reported cut in 1916 was 809,341,000 feet, 
an increase of 4.9 per cent over the 1915 figures. The cut of maple 
has remained almost uniform during a period of 10 years. Michigan 
continues to put out more maple lumber than any other one of the 
States, the proportion being 45 per cent of the total for the country. 
The computed total production was 975,000,000 feet; the previous 
year it was 900,000,000 feet, 
There was an advance in the f. o. b. mill value during the year 
of $3.03 to an average of $18.24. 
Table 15. — Reported production of maple lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 975,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Per cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet. 
f . o. b. mill. 
United States 
4,131 
Feet b. m. 
809,341,000 
100.0 
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Michigan 
271 
278 
208 
846 
453 
359 
321 
216 
85 
1,094 
365,455,000 
146, 480, 000 
70, 900, 000 
50,551,000 
43, 422, 000 
25, 733, 000 
19, 730, 000 
18, 465, 000 
10,090,000 
53,514,000 
45.2 
18.1 
8.8 
6.2 
5.4 
3.2 
2.4 
2.3 
1.2 
7.2 
18.90 
Wisconsin 
West Virginia 
16.15 
19.11 
New York 
19.90 
Pennsvlvania 
17.44 
Ohio..* 
18.46 
Indiana 
22.31 
Vermont 
18.22 
Virginia 
16.91 
