Table 8. — Turpentine operations during the 7934- 35 season, by year of working 



Working area and manner of cupping 



First 

 year 



Second 

 year 



Third 

 year 



Fourth 

 year 



Fifth 

 year 



Sixth 



year and 



later 



All years 



Front-face areas: 



Crops 

 194.0 

 19.7 



Crops 

 276.5 

 31.5 



Crops 

 61. 1 

 6.3 



Crops 

 105.5 

 10.6 



Crops 

 139.6 



14.7 



Crops 

 104.5 

 10.5 



Crops 

 881.2 

 93.3 



Percent 

 12.5 





1.3 







Total 



213.7 



308.0 



67.4 



116.1 



154.3 



115. 



974.5 



13.8 







Back-face areas: 



493.6 



947.4 



933.0 

 893.8 



248.0 

 351.2 



221.1 

 385.7 



385.9 

 451.0 



373.9 

 404.9 



2, 655. 5 

 3, 434. 



37 6 





48.6 







Total -- 



1,441.0 



1, 826. 8 



599.2 



606. 8 



836.9 



778.8 



6, 089. 5 



86 2 







All working areas: 



687.6 

 967. 1 



1,209.5 

 925.3 



309.1 

 357.5 



326.6 

 396.3 



525.5 

 465.7 



478.4 

 415. 4 



3, 536. 7 

 3, 527. 3 



50 1 





49 9 







Total .- - 



1, 654. 7 



■ Percent 



23.4 



2, 134. 8 



Percent 

 30.0 



666. 6 



Percent 



9.4 



722.9 



Percent 



10.2 



991.2 



Percent 



14.0 



893.8 

 Percent 



12.7 



7, 064. 







100.0 



Working Turpentine Area 



Areas in which the trees are being chipped are 

 designated as "working." If the trees are cupped 

 for their first set of faces, the area is known as 

 front-faced, while if a significant number of trees 

 is being worked a second time, the area is known as 

 back-faced. Almost 4 million acres, classified 

 as working, form the turpentine area that is furnish- 

 ing the present naval stores production and that 

 also will furnish the bulk of the supply for the next 

 decade. Nearly 3% million acres of the working 

 turpentine area has been back-faced, while half 

 of the 7,064 crops worked in the 1934-35 season 

 (table 8) were on back faces, indicating the in- 

 tensity of naval-stores operations in south Georgia 

 (fig. 19). 



At the beginning of the 1934-35 season, there 



Table 9. — Round turpentine pines 9 inches or larger in diameter 

 and turpentined pines in different conditions on the various areas, 

 1934 



Areas 



Round 

 trees 



Work- 

 ing 



trees 



Rest- 

 ing 

 trees 



Work- 

 ed-out 

 trees 



All conditions 



Round-timber .. 



Working: 



Front-faced 



Back-faced _ _._ 



Resting and worked- 



1,000 

 trees 

 13, 880 



754 

 2,435 



7, 670 



1,000 

 trees 



8,853 

 56, 329 



1,000 

 trees 

 666 



619 

 6,287 



20,824 



1,000 



trees 



255 



264 

 10, 034 



13, 062 



1.000 

 trees 

 14, 801 



10, 490 

 75, 085 



41, 556 



Per- 

 cent 

 10.4 



7.4 

 52.9 



29.3 







Total 



[ 24, 739 

 | Percent 

 \ 17.4 



65, 182 



Percent 



45.9 



28, 396 



Percent 



20.0 



23, 615 



Percent 



16.7 



141, 932 



100. 



were on the working areas (table 9), in addition 

 to the 65 million working trees, almost 7 million 

 resting trees having future faces, more than 3 

 million round trees at least 9.0 inches d. b. h., 

 nearly 25 million round trees in the 8-inch diameter 

 class, and more than 10 million worked-out trees. 



Almost \% million acres, or 42 percent, of the 

 working area had approximately 21 possible back 

 faces per acre at the time of the survey, in addition 

 to the associated round trees. Less than one-half 

 million acres, or 1 1 percent of the working area, is 

 in the advanced sapling stage, with an average of 12 

 round trees per acre in the 8-inch and larger diam- 

 eter classes and nearly 100 smaller trees that will be 

 ready for working within a few years. More than 

 one-half million acres, or 15 percent, will require 15 

 to 20 years to reach the well-developed stage. The 

 remaining 1% million acres, or 32 percent, consists 

 of intermingled reproduction, clear-cut and seed 

 tree, and nonturpentine areas, which will have few 

 or no naval stores possibilities for at least 20 years. 



Although a 9-inch minimum diameter limit has 

 been advocated for several years because hanging 

 cups on smaller trees is generally unprofitable and 

 considered poor woods practice, in 1934 about 30 

 percent of all the working trees in south Georgia 

 were less than 9 inches d. b. h. In spite of the large 

 number of small working trees, however, the average 

 yield per crop in Georgia is greater than that in any 

 other State in the principal naval stores belt. On 

 the area in which new crops were established for the 

 1934-35 season, 36 percent of the round trees in 



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