FOREST POLICY. 



No paper industry. 



6. Forestry movement: None. 



7. Laws: Wilful firing of woodlands punishable. Fires 

 rare, after Sargent, owing to multitude of swamps. 



8. Reservations: None. 



9. Irrigation: Florida leads among the humid States 

 the rice-growing States excepted in the value of irrigated prod- 

 ucts and in number of irrigated farms (only 1,485 acres). 180 

 truck farms (winter farming) report irrigation. Cost of system, 

 $101.52 per acre (very high). 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF GEORGIA: 



1. Area under forest 42,000 square miles, or 71% of total 

 area, containing, after I2th census, mostly (?) merchantable for- 

 ests. Sargent, in 1880, estimated stand of pine at 16,800,000,000 

 feet b. m., a figure found much too low. 



2. Physiography: The extreme northwestern eighth of the 

 State is traversed by the Table Mountain and Alleghany Ranges, 

 spurs of which protrude to Rome and Atlanta. Southeast of the 

 mountains the Piedmont plateau occupies two-eighths of the 

 State, separated by a line running through Augusta, Macon and 

 Columbus from the remaining five-eighths of the State formed 

 by the level or slightly undulating coastal plain. The huge Okefe- 

 nokee Swamp lies in the extreme southeast. 



3. Distribution: The mountainous section has the species 

 of the southern Appalachians, namely, white, red, scarlet and 

 chestnut oak; chestnut, walnut and hickory; yellow poplar, cu- 

 cumber, sweet and yellow birch; cherry, beech, locust, rigid and 

 table mountain pine; also white pine and hemlock. In the Pied- 

 mont plateau, oaks and hickories, with or under Pinus echinata 

 (usually) or taeda. A stray island of long leaf pine is found on 

 the Alabama line in the northwest. The lowlands of the coastal 

 plain show long leaf pine on sandy soil, mixed with taeda on 

 moister sites. Huge swamps near coast and rivers are stocked 

 with cypress and gums. White cedar prefers the half-swamps. 

 Evergreen broad-leafed species (Persea, Magnolia) line the 

 swamps. Cuban pine grows far inland, up to 100 miles from shore, 

 occupying the wet dells in the long leaf pine woods. 



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