24: AGRICULTURAL AMD MECHANICAL COLLEGE OF TEXAS. 



Bald cypress is- an exceedingly valuable commercial timber tree where 

 it occurs in sufficient quantities.* The cypress lumbering operations of 

 southern Louisiana are second only to yellow pine in that State. In 

 Texas, c} 7 press is not plentiful enough to be of special importance. 

 There is some good cypress in Jasper County and one tract containing 

 5.000,000 feet within a few miles of the county seat of San Augustine 

 County. Scattered specimens are common along every lowland stream 

 and there are minor cypress swamps, but the best of this timber has 

 long ago been cut out. Tupelo gum is much more plentiful and is 

 available, along with alluvial bottom hardwoods, for a variety of future 

 uses. 



Swamp and Bayou Forest consisting of Cypress and Gum Southeastern Texas. 



Post Oak Woodlands. 



The main body of post oak woodlands, as here described, occupies the 

 region between the western limit of the shortleaf and loblolly pines and 

 the Black Prairie belt of East-Central Texas. South westward this post 

 oak country extends in a narrowing belt nearly to the Rio Grande Eiver. 

 It occupies the western and southwestern portions of the Lignitic geo- 

 logical formation, the eastern portion of which lies within the pine 

 regions. Decreasing rainfall and the changing physical condition of 



*For further information, jee Bulletin 272, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, D. C., entitled "The Southern Cypress." 



