24 SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 



As such a large part of North Carolina's wealth is invested in timberland 

 and wood-using industries, and realizing the growing shortage in the supply 

 of timber suitable for the use of these wood-using industries and the conse- 

 quent gradual modification in the requirements fixed by these consumers, and 

 recognizing the value both to the producers and consumers of timber of a 

 more intimate knowledge of local market conditions, the State Survey has 

 made a statistical study of the wood-using industries of the State. 



This report has been published as Economic Paper No. 20, on Wood-using 

 Industries of North Carolina, and should be of value to the State in assisting 

 her in forming an independent forest policy, and in presenting the advantages 

 the State offers to wood-using industries to locate in it. The timber owner — 

 even the farmer who has a few scattered trees to sell — can learn from this 

 report where a market can be found. The sawmill operator may learn a new 

 use for a wood which he previously considered of little commercial value. 

 The manufacturer will have a source of fairly accurate information concern- 

 ing a region most likely to supply the lumber he needs. The merchants 

 throughout the country who handle wood products can obtain considerable 

 advantage in buying and selling. There is given in the report the uses of the 

 different kinds of wood that grow in North Carolina and as complete a list 

 as possible of manufacturers who use wood. 



Other lines of forestry work taken up by the Survey are the examination 

 of private forest lands for the purpose of recommending improved methods of 

 management and the examination of watersheds from which cities or towns 

 obtain their water supply, in order to recommend the best method of pro- 

 tecting these watersheds from fires and contamination. 



The reforestation of cut-over and abandoned farm land is another phase of 

 forestry work that demands considerable attention of the forestry division. 



Many hundred thousand acres in all parts of North Carolina now lying 

 either entirely waste or producing scarcely any timber of value can be made 

 to yield their full capacity and make remunerative returns to their owners. 

 The forest lands that have been cut over once or twice can be made to produce 

 other cuttings as valuable as any that have already been removed. In order 

 to secure reproduction it is necessary that seed trees should be left on the 

 cut-over lands to furnish the seed required, or else it will be necessary to set 

 out young trees or sow seed brought in from outside. Then there must be 

 adequate protection for the young growth, and fire and stock must be kept 

 out of the area. Besides these cut-over areas there are many thousands of 

 acres, especially in the middle and western portions of North Carolina, which 

 have been cleared for cultivation and proved unprofitable. Whatever may 

 have been the cause of this, the lands should be reforested. Where lands of 

 this character do not naturally restock in trees, they can profitably be planted 

 in some desirable species. This will not only insure some earning from such 

 land, but it will protect it from washing or deterioration. 



Young trees are very susceptible to fire, and many of them, such as the 

 pines, are destroyed in large quantities by stock and hogs, when these are 

 allowed to run at large. Thus, if good results are to be obtained in reforesta- 

 tion, it is absolutely necessary that the planted areas be protected from fire 

 and stock. This is just as true when applied to forests that are reproducing 

 themselves, because the young trees must have a chance to grow, for unless 



