Table 22. — Production and employment in the wood-products 

 industries, 1934 



Industry and use 



Lumber. 

 Veneer.. 



Cross ties 



Fence posts 



Poles and piles. 



Cooperage. 

 Fuelwood . 



Miscellaneous 7 _ 



Total man-days of employ- 

 ment 



Units pro- 

 duced 



hi board 



feet 

 2 204, 600 

 2 36, 300 



Pieces 

 1. 974, 600 

 1 1, 618. 200 

 45, 400 



Cords 



25, 800 



6 536, 800 



f 9, 700 



M board 



feet 



[ 2700 



Employment ' 



In the 

 woods 



Han-days 



261, 000 



72, 500 



271, 900 



* 28, 000 



13, 900 



29,200 



6 614,900 



10, 400 



200 



1, 302, 000 



At the 

 plant 



Man-days 

 448, 000 

 3 199, 700 



5 44, 100 



26,; 



6,300 



724, 600 



1 In man-days of 10 hours. 



2 Lumber tally. 



3 Includes fabrication in crate and package plants. 



4 Includes 236,300 commercial fence posts on which 4,000 man-days of 

 labor were expended. 



5 Labor in treating plant. 



6 Includes 83,900 cords of commercial fuel wood on which 116,700 man- 

 days of labor were expended and 80,200 cords of nonforest fuel wood on 

 which labor was not computed; also includes 12,500 cords of fuel wood 

 used in stilling operations, but the labor for this (12,500 man-days) is 

 accounted for in the section on Gum Naval Stores Industry. 



7 Shingle and excelsior plants, miscellaneous farm use, and export logs. 



In 1934 more than \}( z million fence posts were 

 cut. Over 75 percent were of lightwood, almost 

 20 percent of cypress, and the remainder of green 

 pine and of oak and other hardwoods. It is esti- 

 mated that almost 250,000 of these posts were pro- 

 duced for sale, most of the others being used locally 

 on the farms. 



Less than 100,000 of the 456,000 cords of fuel 

 wood obtained from the forest were sold com- 

 mercially. About one-quarter of all fuel wood 

 produced was of lightwood, the quantity of which 

 is rapidly diminishing through use. The produc- 

 tion offence posts and fuel wood in 1934 required 

 almost 650,000 man-days of labor, the greater 

 proportion of which was expended by farm 

 laborers. 



MISCELLANEOUS 



In addition to the industries and products already 

 mentioned, there are a shingle mill, an excelsior 

 plant, and a hamper-bottom plant. A few logs 

 are exported each year and there is some miscel- 

 laneous farm use other than for fence posts and 

 fuel. Altogether these miscellaneous items require 

 less than 20,000 man-days of labor each year. 



Commodity Drain 



Commodity drain includes the volume utilized 

 from this survey unit by the several forest-prod- 

 ucts industries located either within or without its 

 boundaries, plus any additional unutilized volume 

 of the trees cut which is included in the inventory 

 estimates of the survey. The drain figures do not 

 include that part of the cut of the wood-products 

 industries shown in table 22 which was obtained 

 from the forests outside the survey unit, but do 

 include the drain on this unit by industries lo- 

 cated outside its boundaries. The Forest Survey 

 includes in its saw-timber volumes the entire 

 stem that, in the opinion of its timber estimators, 

 could be used with close utilization. Some of this 

 material may be utilized and some may be wasted, 

 depending upon local practices, i. e., upon the 

 degree of utilization. 



The saw-timber commodity drain exceeded 

 425 million board feet (International %-inch rule) 

 in 1934 (table 23). Almost 47 percent of this 



Table 23. — Commodity drain from saw-timber growing stock 

 expressed in board feet (International l /±-inch rule), 7934 1 



Commodity 



Pine 



Hard- 

 wood 



Cypress 



All species 



Lumber 



M board 



feet 



103, 600 



18, 200 



9,400 



46, 000 



4,800 



M board 

 feet 

 36, 600 

 22. 200 

 09 



3,700 

 ( 2 ) 



200 



15, 700 



400 



M board 



feet 



59, 100 



100 



1,300 



74, 600 



800 



M hoard 



feet 



199, 300 



40, 500 



10, 700 



124, 300 



5,600 



200 



42, 100 



2,500 



Percent 

 46.9 



Cooperage 



9.5 

 2. 5 



Cross ties. . . . 



29.3 



Fence posts . 



1.3 

 ( 2 ) 

 9.9 





26, 400 

 1, 600 



Miscellaneous... 



500 



.6 



Total 



210, 000 



78, 800 



136, 400 



425, 200 



100.0 



1 The International !4-inch rule closely approximates lumber tally. 



2 Negligible. 



Table 24. — Commodity drain of good trees 5 inches and larger 

 expressed in cubic feet (inside bark), 1934 



Commodity 



Pine 



Hard- 

 wood 



Cypress 



All species 



Lumber. 



Veneer _ __ . 



Cooperage . 



M cubic 



feet 



18, 390 



3,200 



2,270 



8,700 



960 



20 



7,670 



720 



H cubic 



feet 



5, 260 



3,190 



10 



570 



30 



3,530 



80 



M cubic 



feet 



8,440 



10 



210 



11,280 



120 



250 



90 



M cubic 



feet 



32, 090 



6,400 



2,490 



20, 550 



1,080 



300 



11, 200 



890 



Percent 



42.8 



8.5 



3-3 



27.4 



Poles and piles 



Fence posts 



Fuel wood . 



Miscellaneous 



1.4 



.4 



15.0 



1.2 



Total 



41, 930 



12, 670 



20, 400 



75, 000 



100.0 



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