Table 15. — Commodity drain from good trees, 7935 



Saw timber i 



Commodity 



All material ! 



Pines Hardwoods Total 



Pines Hardwoods Total 



Lumber 



Cross ties 



Poles and piles 



Veneers 



Cooperage 



Fuel wood 



Fence posts 



Miscellaneous. 



Total.. _. 



M board feet 



506, 200 



47, 600 



8,000 



2,500 



1,100 



42, 800 



2,500 



If board feet 

 130, 300 

 22, 200 



10, 100 

 2,300 



23,400 



400 



7,300 



M board feet 



636, 500 



69, 800 



8,000 



12, 600 



3,400 



66, 200 



2,900 



15, 100 



M cubic feet 



84, 770 



8,700 



1,780 



420 



200 



11, 820 



690 



2,930 



M cubic feet 

 18, 620 

 3,240 



1,440 



320 



11, 730 



490 



2,600 



M cubic feet 



103, 390 



11, 940 



1,780 



1,860 



520 



23,550 



1,180 



5, 530 



tils, 500 



196, 000 



814, 500 



111.310 



38, 440 



149, 750 



i Expressed in International 54-inch rule, which is used as the equivalent of green lumber tally. 

 2 Expressed in cubic feet excluding bark. 



EMPLOYMENT IN FOREST INDUSTRIES 



In table 16 is shown the production of the 

 various forest industries and the man-days of 

 employment provided in the woods and mill. 

 The production listed is based on the actual cut 

 of the various plants and activities and includes 

 logs and other material brought in from other 

 survey units. It does not include the incidental 

 drain which is part of the commodity drain from 

 good trees shown in table 15. The figures for 

 man-days of labor employed in mills are based 

 upon actual production rather than upon drain; 

 those for man-days of woods labor are based upon 

 material cut from the unit only. 



Table 16. — Production and employment data, 7935 



Kind of industry 



Quantity produced in 

 1935 



Employment 



or commodity 



Woods 



Mill 



Total 





5,730,000 cubic feet 



1,000 

 man- 

 days 



1,000 

 man- 

 days 

 102 



2 



1. 204 



46 



5 



3 



1,000 

 man- 

 days 

 102 



658,000 cords 



687 



14 



213 



26 



43 



718 



19 



8 



8 



987 





1,000 units . 



16 





1,423,000 pieces .. 



213 



Poles and piles 

 Fence posts . 



144,000 pieces 



26 



3 293,000 pieces 



43 



644,200,000 board feet—. 

 11,400,000 board feet 

 3,fi00cords 



1.922 



Veneer 



Cooperage . 



65 

 13 



7,000 cords 



11 









Total 



2,036 



1. 362 



3,398 









Comparison of Increment and Drain 



In table 17 the net annual increment of timber 

 in the saw-timber sizes is compared with the 

 annual commodity drain. The total net incre- 

 ment of good trees in 1935, as given in table 13, 

 was 1,268 million board feet by the International 

 %-inch rule. This exceeds the commodity drain 

 by 454 million board feet. In the pines, the 

 commodity drain was 62 percent of the net incre- 

 ment, while in the hardwoods it was 74 percent. 

 The growing stock of pine saw timber was in- 

 creased by 386 million board feet and the hard- 

 wood of the same classification by 68 million 

 board feet. 



Figure 12 shows the relation between the net 

 increment and the commodity drain (a rough 

 estimate) in the various forest conditions. 



Table 17. — Balance between increment and drain in board feet 

 (International %-inck rule) 



Item 



Pine 



Hardwood 



Total 



Net growing stock, Jan. 1, 

 1935 



M board feet 



12. 409, 800 



1.004,400 



618, 500 



12, 795, 700 



M board feet 



6, 991, 100 



264, 000 



196, 000 



7, 059, 100 



M board feet 

 19, 400, 900 



Forest increment, 1935— . 

 Commodity drain, 1935 

 Net growing stock, Jan. 1, 

 1936 



1, 268, 400 

 814, 500 



19, 854, 800 







Net increase in grow- 

 ing stock. 1935 



385, 900 



68, 000 



453, 900 



1 Does not include domestic farm use or land clearing. 



The rate of cutting in the old-growth stands 

 greatly exceeds the annual increment, with the 



26 



