Show LEATHER AND A D THE FOREST No o other nation produces half as Ift much tanned curried and an finished as the United States which yields over of or tho worlds supply SU SIx hundred hunde l and seventeen contribute In to this output The raw includes hides and an skins 1 1 nil Including a II large larKe num number ber flum Argentina Ar To tan this Im Quantity II lit ot oC leather valued at over 1111 lUll last I year car required rl cords of oC worth nearly nl t more than fiO of ot tanning extract worth S Over lr of ot the tanbark con consumed conI I comes S flum hemlock and over from oak chestnut 1111 other contribute the tho remainder Mote More extract Is secured from chestnut ch however than limn from nil all other domestic woods wood 1 combined A small of extract of or a little over 1000 barrel comes t from tho roots of palmetto Although tho tanning Industry Is III widely distributed over the United States the greater part of oC It Is carried on In tho statoR states of or Pennsylvania New NewYork el York Michigan nn and Wisconsin I which use ISO more than of ot tho tan tanning ning materials consumed Pennsylvania alone consumes over o lr pounds of or bark and n nd extract worth or 37 If per lei cent of tho total value 1900 the quantity of ot used usel haa fallen oft ID per cent nl iu ai though Its Ita alue has 1 this period the consumption of ut from Crom to tu a 1 year I UI of or nearly were JIe Imported Relatively small quail quan quantities of f bark balk were from Canada and of IC mangrove bar the West est Indies 1 IR o lit Africa In III weight four time as nil much quebracho was Ill Imported In bark as us In form but the ot oC thu tha two was WK about the same t brought tho lowest 1111 11 in New 11 and Ind Iho highest 1 In III Oregon with 1 I h an nil average n of or 59 30 pu pc cord ItI More 1010 than in 11 hark bak the tho of ot extract widely lo to the tI material from which it was manul The extract ot oC quebracho 11 IlC 10 n II lico of Mexico Central America South America Ill La and till the West Indies from which of ot nil tanning are nr secured hail an pi price Ice bf ns per pct barrel hart m l I homlok 1260 per pel band oak oik per barrel and 12 per 11 1 barrel Statistics of or the consumption of oC tan bark tanning extract In III 1006 1 06 ered in cooperation with till the of the tho census me given iu In UP of oC the th forest foresI This pub publication can nn ho bl upon application to the forester V 1 S department of II agriculture n Washington m D C |