82 BULLETIN" 673, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
SUGAR PINE. 
Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) production in 1916 was the largest 
for any one year for which data are recorded. It totaled 169,247,000 
feet, an increase in itself of 47 per cent over the quantity reported cut 
in 1915. The figures are those for 65 mills, in comparison with 42 
mills which reported in 1915. To the larger number of operations 
may be attributed the greater proportion of the much swelled output, 
though apparently the mills found it expedient to enlarge their cut. 
The average mill value of SI 6. 7 7 per 1,000 feet is slightly under the 
1915 value. 
Table 30. — Reported production of sugar pine lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 169,250,000 feet b.m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet, 
f . o. b. mill. 
65 
Feet b. m. 
189, 247, 009 
100.0 
S^ 77 
54 
11 
165.461,000 
3,788,000 
97.8 
2.2 
16 87 
12.53 
HICKORY. 
Hickory lumber production in 1915 showed little change from that 
reported for the two years preceding. The 1916 reported cut of 
93,454,000 feet is 8.6 per cent in excess of the cut of the year before. 
Five species are cut in the main — shagbark (Hicoria ovata) t shellb&Tk 
(Hico'ria laciniosa), pignut (Hicoria glabra), bitternut (Hicoria 
minima), and rnockernut (Hicoria alba). The quantity of hickory 
cut into lumber or plank has substantially decreased in the last 
few years, since the principal consumers want the material cut into 
dimension stock; it is also generally realized that the supply of 
hickory timber is diminishing. 
The average value of hickory as reported by the mills was $23.84 
per 1,000 feet; in 1915 it was $23.35. 
Table 31. — Reported production of hickory lumber, 1916. 
[Computed total production in United States, 125,000,000 feet b. m.] 
Number of 
active 
mills re- 
porting. 
Quantity re- 
ported. 
Percent. 
Average 
value per 
Mfeet, 
f. o. b. mill. 
United States 
2,500 
Feet b. m. 
93,454,000 
100.0 
S23.84 
Arkansas 
135 
217 
209 
179 
276 
68 
322 
31 
93 
22n 
742 
13,311.000 
12,013,000 
9,909,000 
9,788,000 
7, 639, 000 
6, 700, 000 
6, 575, 000 
4,370,000 
4,063,000 
3,310,000 
15, 776, 000 
14.2 
12.9 
10.6 
10.5- 
8.2 
7.2 
7.0 
4.7 
4.3 
3.5+ 
16.9 
25. 39 
25.08 
20.41 
20.03 
28.84 
29.01 
86. 43 
20.06 
29. 11 
21.30 
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West Virginia 
Kentucky 1 
Indiana 
Mississippi 
Ohio 
Louisiana 
ri 
Pennsylvania 
Allother States (see summarj", p. 3S)... 
