of hardwood sawtimber are not included. Table 13 shows 

 the grand total of all sound wood material including that 

 in culls, upper-stem, and limbs of hardwood sawtimber. 



Table 12 shows an interesting fact: Its final total figure 

 of 201 million cords varies less than 2 per cent from the 

 estimate made by the Forest Survey eight years ago. This 

 seems to bear out an important point, namely, that the 

 total volume of wood material may remain constant, or 

 even increase, although sawtimber declines materially. 

 Pine sawtimber is 12 per cent less by this inventory, when 

 compared with the one eight years earlier, although the 

 overall wood volume seems to be about the same. 



Further comparisons with the 1938 survey, always re- 

 stricted to the same 21 sample counties, show very small 

 differences by regions. Coastal Plain Units are about 5 per 

 cent lower by the Appraisal; the other regions are a little 

 higher. 



With regard to upper-stem cordwood volumes, the ten- 

 dency has been for pulpmills to use increasing amounts of 

 the pine tops following operations of sawmills. Farmers 

 cut topwood for tobacco curing and other home fuel use 

 where the logged areas are near the farm, and accessible. 

 Unfortunately, however, the bulk of such material goes 

 unused. 



Table 12 



VOLUME OF ALL SOUND TREES, IN CORDS 



(Does not include sound material in cull trees, nor the upper stem and limbs of 



hardwood sawtimber.) 



North 



Coastal 



Plain 



PINE 



Sawlog material 20,124 



Upper stems sawlog trees 4,182 



Trees under sawlog size 7,288 



TOTAL PINE 31,594 



HARDWOODS 



Sawlog material 13,830 



Trees under sawlog size 11,511 



TOTAL HARDWOOD 25,342 



TOTALS 56,935 



Average Cordwood Volume 



Per Acre 13.75 



South 



Coastal 



Plain 



Piedmont 



(M Cords) 



31,907 



6,561 

 8,579 



15,140 

 47,047 



8.39 



35,281 



9,072 

 17,539 



26,611 

 61,892 



12.28 



Mountains 



10,160 



12,297 

 12,597 



24,894 

 35,054 



9.45 



State 



17,440 



15,473 



5,886 



58,923 



3,645 



3,730 



1,425 



12,982 



10,822 



16,078 



2,849 



37,037 



108,942 



41,760 

 50,226 



91,986 

 200,928 



10.84 



Table 13 



TOTAL VOLUME IN CORDS, FROM ALL SOURCES 



(Includes all sound trees over 5" d.b.h., upper stems and limbs of hardwood sawtimber, 



and sound material in cull trees.) 



North South 



Coastal Coastal Piedmont Mountains State 



Plain Plain 



' " (M Cords) 



TOTAL VOLUME 

 ALL SOUND TREES 

 (from Table 12) 56,935 47,047 61,892 35,054 200,928 



UPPER STEMS & LIMBS 

 OF HARDWOOD 

 SAWTIMBER 6,670 3,302 4,696 5,008 19,676 



TOTAL 63,605 50,349 66,588 40,062 220,604 



SOUND MATERIAL 

 CONTAINED IN CULL 

 TREES IN 1938* 10,240 9,438 8,715 9,329 37,722 



TOTAL 257 ' 863 



* From U. S. Forest Survey, 1938. It seems unlikely that amount of t -„„ + „j +„ u Q n 710 onn ™ r A* ,-t, 1<m Tho atnnimt 



cull has diminished. Cull material is nearly 90% hardwood. upper stems was estimated to he 11,719,900 cords m 1938. The amount 



Above figures do not include any chestnut. Dead chestnut, including has diminished considerably through cutting and decay. 



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