Excerpt from Report of the State Forester of Wisconsin for 1909 and 1910 Wisconsin has ranked as one of the greatest lumber produc ing states in the Union and much of her wealth has and should come from her forests. However, the figures compiled by the U. S. Census Bureau show us how rapidly Wisconsin is losing her proud position in lumber production, for while she ranked first in 1900 the figures for 1910 show that she has dropped to eighth place and that the decrease in production has been 4070, which is a greater loss than that of any other state. Our wood-using industries consume annually more than 930 million board feet of lumber valued at and this report OF the state forester. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.