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Fig. 2. Looking vertically upward in virgin forest of long-leaf pine in 

 lime-sink region about two miles northwest of McRae, Covington County, 

 showing the sparse foliage, which lets plenty of sunlight through to the 

 forest floor. June 10, 1919. 



sills. l)eams, joists and rafters. Smaller rough, hewed or split 

 pieces make crossties. fence rails and posts, mine props, log cabins, 

 cribs, stick chimneys, staves of rosin barrels, and home-made 

 palings and shingles. Blocks of it about the size of an ordinary 

 brick, impregnated with creosote — another product of the same 

 species — have been used extensively in the last twenty years or so 

 for street paving, at least as far north as New York. 



Sawed lumber goes into fences, weatherboards, shingles, floor- 

 ing, wainscoting, doors, sash and blinds, cars, cotton gins, and 

 countless other articles. The sawdust is used for packing ice, etc., 

 as well as for fuel in the mills which produce it. 



Young shoots two or three feet high have been shipped north 

 from Evergreen and elsewhere for winter decorations. Leafy 

 twigs of this and other pines are used for stopping the openings in 

 the bottoms of coal cars when loaded at some of the mines in the 

 Birmingham district. The dead leaves ("pine straw") are used 

 for mulching and bedding, and occasionally for making fancy bas- 

 kets. They have been used a good deal for surfacing sandv roads. 



