Table 24. — Commodity drain from saw-timber growing stock, 

 and from all sound trees 5 inches d. b. h. and larger, 1936 



FROM SAW-TIMBER GROWING STOCK (LUMBER TALLY) 



Commodity 



Pine 



Hard- 

 wood 



Cy- 

 press 



All species 





M board 

 feet 



274, 000 

 10, 900 

 16, 400 

 16,200 

 31,000 

 13, 400 



M board 

 feet 

 52, 100 

 29, 300 

 2,100 



M board 

 feet 

 14, 300 



M board 

 feet 



340, 400 

 40,200 

 18,500 

 16, 200 

 95, 100 

 14,000 



Percent 

 48.2 





5.7 



Cooperage 



Pulpwood. 





2.6 





2.3 



7,200 



56, 900 

 600 



13.4 





2.0 











124, 300 

 8,200 



46,400 

 3,700 



( 2 ) 



170, 700 

 11,900 



24.1 



Miscellaneous i__ 



1.7 



All commodities. .. 



494, 400 



140, 800 



71, 800 



707,000 



100.0 



FROM SOUND TREES 5.0 INCHES D. B. H. AND LARGER 

 (INSIDE BARK) 



Lumber 



Veneer 



Cooperage 



Pulpwood 



Cross ties 



Poles and piles 



Fence posts 3 



Fuel wood 



Miscellaneous 1 



All commodities 



M cubic 

 feet 



57, 350 

 2,010 

 3,740 

 5,780 

 6,150 

 2,930 

 360 



32, 190 

 3,210 



113,720 



M cubic 



feet 



7,870 



4,190 



340 



1,090 



220 

 9,150 

 1,040 



23, 900 



M cubic 

 feet 

 2,020 



8,570 

 100 

 220 



( 2 ) 



10,910 



M : ubic 

 feet 



67, 240 

 6,200 

 4,080 

 5,780 



15, 810 



3,030 

 800 



41,340 

 4,250 



148. 530 



Percent 

 45.3 

 4.2 

 2.8 

 3.9 

 10.6 

 2.0 

 .5 

 27.8 

 2.9 



LOO 



I Includes shingles, dimension stock, export logs, material employed in 

 domestic farm use, and drain incidental to land clearing. 



a Negligible. 



3 Includes only fence posts cut from growing-stock material, roughly 

 one-third of the total number cut. 



"Commodity drain," as used in this report, repre- 

 sents the volume of timber cut from forest stands 

 within the unit to meet the requirements of 

 sawmills and other wood-using plants and activi- 

 ties. It differs from actual production to the extent 

 of the amount of woods waste incidental to manu- 

 facture and incomplete economic utilization, the 

 volume in trees cut within the unit but manufac- 

 tured outside it, and the volume of trees cut outside 

 the unit but manufactured within it. The saw- 

 timber drain for lumber production in 1936 was 

 more than 340 million board feet, and caused a 

 total drain of more than 67 million cubic feet 

 (table 24). 



Veneer 



In 1934 the veneer industry of south Georgia used 

 the equivalent of approximately 46 million board 



feet (lumber tally). Eleven rotary-cut veneer 

 plants used between 35 and 40 million board feet 

 in 1935 and 1936. In 1936, this caused a drain of 

 more than 6 million cubic feet and furnished ap- 

 proximately 241,000 man-days of employment. 

 Nine of these plants are parts of establishments 

 manufacturing fruit and vegetable boxes, crates, 

 hampers, and baskets; two also manufacture ply- 

 wood veneers. The principal woods used are pine, 

 black and water tupelo, sweetgum, yellowpoplar, 

 southern magnolia, and sweetbay. Three con- 

 tainer plants log their own timber, while the re- 

 mainder buy logs delivered at the plant. 



Cooperage 



Most of the 28 stave plants are in southeast 

 Georgia, where many of them make rosin barrels 

 from pine; a few make hardwood staves or slack 

 barrel heads and hamper bottoms and tops. 

 Several plants log their own timber, while the re- 

 mainder buy blocks delivered at the mill. This 

 industry uses approximately 40,000 cords of pine 

 and 3,000 cords of hardwood annually, which 

 caused a drain of approximately 4 million cubic 

 feet in 1936 and furnished about 93,000 man-days 

 of employment. 



Piece Products 



Approximately 155,000 pine and 5,000 cypress 

 poles and piles were produced in 1934. Produc- 

 tion fell off slightly in 1935 but increased in 1936 

 to about 159,000 pine and 14,000 cypress poles, 

 causing a total drain of more than 3 million cubic 

 feet. In 1936 this industry furnished approxi- 

 mately 32,000 man-days of employment. 



Approximately 2 million cross ties (sawed and 

 hewn) were produced both in 1934 and 1935, 

 while in 1936 production fell off to approximately 

 \y 2 million, of which 56 percent was cypress, 36 

 percent pine, and 8 percent hardwood. The 1936 

 requirement of the cross-tie industry in sawlog-size 

 timber was about 95 million board feet, which is 

 equivalent to a drain of almost 16 million cubic 

 feet, or 11 percent of the total drain. This im- 

 portant industry furnished part-time employment 

 totaling about 203,000 man-days in 1936 and 

 involved utilization of scattered tracts of timber, 

 most of them unpractical for timber production. 

 (Fig. 28.) 



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