BULLETIN 272, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



The general inaccessibility of swamps and the difficulty of cruising 

 by ordinary methods have probably strengthened in the case of 

 cypress the general tendency to underestimate timber. Successive 

 estimates of the total stand have constantly increased, in spite of 

 the heavy annual cut. In 1897 an investigation placed the amount 

 of standing cypress at 33,000,000,000 feet. 1 In 1909, however, the 

 Bureau of Corporations estimated the amount of standing cypress 

 at 40,000,000,000 feet, distributed by States as shown in Table 1. 



Table 1. — Total estimated amount of standing cypress, by States. 1 



State. 



Total stand. 



Per cent 

 of total 

 stand. 





Boardfeet. 



15, 700, 000, 000 



10, 700, 000, 000 



3, 000, 000, 000 



2, 800, 000, 000 



2, 600, 000, 000 



2, 200, 000, 000 



1,900,000,000 



900, 000, 000 



200, 000, 000 



200, 000, 000 



200, 000, 000 



38.9 





26.5 





7.4 





6.9 





6.4 





5.5 





4.7 





2.2 





.5 





.5 





.5 









Total 



40, 400, 000, 000 



100.0 





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i Department of Labor, Bureau of Corporations, "The Lumber Industry, Part I, Standing Timber," 

 p. 76. To these figures, which represent the stand privately owned in all States, should be added a small 

 amount of State and Federal timber and private timber in Maryland, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 



Thus, Louisiana was credited with nearly 40 per cent and Florida 

 with more than one-quarter of all the standing cypress. 



Stands of second growth are becoming merchantable, and may 

 now be included. The Louisiana Conservation Commission in its 

 report for 1914 estimates the present cypress stand of that State at 

 14,130,000,000 feet. This is only 570,000,000 feet less than was 

 given by the estimate of 1909 quoted above, yet Louisiana in 1912 

 alone cut over 653,000,000 feet, and has been cutting at about the 

 same rate annually during the five years since 1909. Owners are 

 invariably cautious about giving out information regarding the 

 amounts of timber in their holdings. This situation and the factor 

 of annual growth being taken into account, the total stand of cypress 

 in 1914 is believed to be not less than 40,000,000,000 feet. 



ANNUAL CUT. 



The total cut of cypress lumber in 1913, exclusive of lath and 

 shingles, was 1,097,247,000 board feet. 2 Since shingles and lath are 

 made from the slabs and other kinds of "mill waste," arid poles and 

 ties are usually cut from small sizes not considered in the original 



i Mohr, Dr. Charles, Report for the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 2 The Bureau of Crop Estimates, in cooperation with the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

 based upon reports of 607 mills. Reports from mills cutting less than 50,000 feet not included. 



