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Supply and utilization of long-leaf pine 158 



Treatment required by the long-leaf pine forests 159 



Loblolly Pine Woodland 161 



Condition of the forests 163 



Merchantable loblolly pine timber 163 



Forest industries 164 



Forest protection 164 



Reproduction of loblolly pine forests 165 



Sylvicultural treatment of loblolly pine 165 



Transitional Forests 16* 



Forests of Lowlands of Coastal Plain 169 



Oak flats 1™ 



Merchantable timber on oak flats 172 



Sylviculture treatment 172 



Gum and cypress swamps 173 



Merchantable timber of gum and cypress swamps 174 



White cedar or juniper swamps 175 



Condition of unl umbered swamps 176 



Treatment of white cedar swamps 178 



The pond pine pocosins 179 



Forests of the Piedmont Plateau Region 181 



Forests of the Piedmont lowlands 182 



Improvement of the forests of the lowlands 185 



Forests of the Piedmont uplands 186 



Soils of the Piedmont uplands 187 



General condition of the forest 187 



Eastern pine belt of the Piedmont plateau 188 



Forests of the e i stern granite areas 189 



Treatment required by forests of eastern granite areas 190 



Forests of eastern red sandstone belt 191 



Improvements of the forests of the sandstone belt 193 



Forests of the slate soils : 194 



Deciduous forests of the Piedmont plateau 196 



Forests of the compact red loams or red clays 196 



Improvement of the forests 198 



Forest of the loose gray loams :... 199 



Condition of the deciduous forests of the Piedmont plateau 202 



Western pine belt of the Piedmont plateau 204 



Merchantable timber of western Piedmont pine belt 206 



Improvement of forest 207 



Forests op Mountain Region 208 



Forests of lower mountains 209 



Distinctive growth 210 



Table mountain pine division 210 



