N. C. GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SURVEY. 



PLATE XIV. 



Stand 50 to 60 years old, Quality II, on permanent loblolly pine site, which was culled of the dominant trees 

 fifteen years ago. This stand, consequently, is formed of the intermediate and suppressed trees of 

 the original stand, which accounts for the very clean and slender stems. Under a better method of 

 cutting, this stand would have produced at this time 35,000 board feet to the acre, the average log 

 being 45 feet D.-S. and yielding more than 60 per cent No. 3 grade lumber and better. Desirable 

 type of seed trees marked "S." (Author's illustration.) 



