BLACK WALNUT! ITS GROWTH AND MANAGEMENT. 9 



North Carolina. — The coves and valleys of the mountain region of 

 western North Carolina up to an elevation of 4,000 feet are the most 

 favorable sites in the State for walnut. For many years these forests 

 have been subjected to selective logging, carried on at greater and 

 greater distances from shipping points, and the walnut has been 

 removed along with other valuable species. This process culminated 

 in the close search for walnut during the war. As a result, stands 

 containing much walnut of merchantable size and quality can now 

 rarely be found in the western part of the State, except in remote 

 sections distant from railroads or in places otherwise difficult of 

 access. In the Piedmont region it is found commonly as far east as 

 a line relatively parallel to the mountains and passing through 

 Statesville, and in this region perhaps the largest amounts in the 

 State exist at the present time. Still farther east walnut is occa- 

 sionally found on better bottom lands, but in many large areas it is 

 entirely lacking, although hedgerow and roadside trees which have 

 been protected are not infrequent. 



South Carolina. — As a whole, walnut is not commercially important 

 in South Carolina, being found in quantity only in the one tier of 

 counties next to the mountains. Throughout the Piedmont region, 

 as far as Columbia, it is usually found only as scattered trees on 

 rich soils, but in some localities it is more abundant. 



Georgia. — Walnut is of importance only in the Appalachian Val- 

 ley region of northeast Georgia and the Blue Ridge region to the 

 east, where a few counties contain 40 per cent of the total stand. 

 Toward the southeast the proportion of native walnut decreases, and 

 along the two or three rows of counties back from the coast noth- 

 ing but planted walnut or protected roadside trees is reported. No- 

 where is there now sufficient walnut to give the section any com- 

 mercial importance, and the scattered walnut of the Piedmont region 

 is hardly more considerable. 



NORTH CENTRAL STATES. 



Ohio. — Ohio is one of the famous old producers, and, in spite of 

 a somewhat dense population and large agricultural area, there are 

 still large amounts of walnut to be found, especially in the broken 

 east central part of the State, where it flourishes in fields and in 

 mixed hardwood stands and seems to be reproducing in a satisfactory 

 way. It is common but less plentiful over the remainder of the State. 



Southern Michigan. — Although a famous hardwood State, Michi- 

 gan is too far north to have very much walnut. This wood has 

 been shipped from as far north as the fourth tier of counties above 

 the Indiana line, a distance of 80 miles. Toward the southwest, on 

 account of the sandy soils, it is only occasionally found, but over 

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