4 LOBLOLLY OK NORTH CAROLINA PINE. 



on savannas and on all wet, sandy, coarse-grained soils, particularly 

 below an elevation of 100 feet above sea level. 



The shortleaf pine occurs with the loblolly pine, chiefly on well- 

 drained, loamy, gravelly or clayey uplands. In the coastal plain they 

 are most frequently associated north of the Neuse River, but are seldom 

 found together to the southward, except on hills along streams. They 

 are found together on the oak uplands of the eastern portion of the 

 Piedmont plateau region on well-drained, loamy or gravelly knolls and 

 hills, where the shortleaf pine is the remnant of the old forest and the 

 loblolly pine forms a portion of the second growth. Only in a few local- 

 ities are all four pines found growing together. Near the coast the 

 loblolly, pocoson, and longleaf pines are sometimes associated on sandy 

 hummocks; the wettest places, however, are as a rule occupied by the 

 pocoson pine; the pocoson and the loblolly pines are associated on 

 savannas and slightly drier knolls; on better drained soils the long- 

 leaf replaces the pocoson pine in the mixture and on thoroughly drained 

 soils only the longleaf pine is found. 



ECONOMIC STATUS OF LOBLOLLY PISE. 



Loblolly pine is the most important timber tree in southeastern Vir- 

 ginia, in eastern North Carolina, and in northeastern South Carolina 

 north of Georgetown; while to the south of Georgetown not only in 

 South Carolina but in Georgia and westward in the Gulf States its im- 

 portance is yearly increasing with the decrease in the supply of longleaf 

 pine. (See Map, Fig. 1.) Its value and its importance as a commercial 

 tree are best indicated by the extent of the lumber industry which is 

 dependent upon it and by the annual output of North Carolina pine 

 lumber in southeastern Virginia, in North Carolina and in the adjacent 

 portion of South Carolina. While no attempt is made in the census 

 figures to separate the cuts of the various pines which are sawed in this 

 region, all of them being grouped under the head of yellow pine, it is 

 possible to approximate closely the cut of loblolly pine. The lumber cut 

 of certain counties is entirely from loblolly pine (the shortleaf pine of 

 the coast) and that of other counties is very largely from this species. 

 In southeastern Virginia the cut of pine in 1912 in nine counties which 

 are within the loblolly pine belt was 397,344,000 bd. ft. In North Caro- 

 lina the cut of pine in 40 coastal plain pine counties was 1,079,061,000 

 bd. ft. In South Carolina in 15 counties the cut north of Georgetown 

 was 548,138,000 bd. ft. A small amount of the pine cut in these nine 

 counties in southeastern Virginia is from the shortleaf pine (of the 

 Piedmont) ; in North Carolina small amounts of the pine cut in the 

 coastal plain are from the shortleaf pine and from the longleaf or 

 pitch pine; in South Carolina probably less than 10 per cent of the 

 pine cut of the counties north of Georgetown is at present from long- 



