Table 30. — Net saw-timber increment and net increment of the total 

 stand, and species group, 1938 



Region and species group 



Saw timber 



All sour 



d trees ' 



Coastal Plain: 



Softwoods, _ _ 



M 

 board feet 

 1, 042, 200 

 299,000 



1,000 

 cords 

 3,02] 



1,417 



1,000 

 cubic feet 

 216 200 



Hardwoods _. 



93, 600 





Total 



1, 341, 200 



4,438 



309, 800 



Piedmont: 



Softwoods __ 



514, 800 

 190, 600 



2,117 

 1,182 



151 570 



Hardwoods . __ 



75 970 







Total 



705, 400 



3,299 



227 540 







Mountains:- 



Softwoods 



105, 100 

 147, 500 



442 

 998 



31 150 



Hardwoods- . 



61 470 







Total 



252, 600 



1,440 



92, 620 





All regions: 



Softwoods 



1, 662. 100 

 637, 100 



5,580 

 3,597 



398. 920 

 231 040 



Hardwoods _ 







Total 



2, 299, 200 



9,177 



629. 960 



1 The increment of all sound trees 5 inches d. b. h. and larger is expressed 

 in cords with bark and in cubic feet without bark. 



Commodity Drain 



The commodity drain on the sound-tree growing stock 

 comprises the wood cut and used within the State and a 

 small quantity shipped to manufacturing plants in nearby 

 States, but not the volume of wood imported from South 

 Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia. These im- 

 ports included 10 million board feet of veneer, sawlogs, 

 etc., and 78,000 cords of pulpwood. 



The drain on the sawlog portions of trees is expressed in 

 board feet, but is included in drain expressed in cords and 

 cubic feet. Drain on hardwood tops and on dead chestnut 

 is not included. All three estimates of drain are summar- 

 ized in table 3.1. Fifty-two percent of the commodity 

 drain was on forests in the Coastal Plain division, 37 

 percent in the piedmont, and only 11 percent in the 

 mountains. 



Saw-Timber Drain 



The 2.22 billion feet of commodity drain upon the 

 saw-timber growing stock in 1938 was roughly three- 

 fourths softwoods and one-fourth hardwoods. Two-thirds 

 of it was chargeable to the manufacture of lumber and 

 one-fifth to the burning of sawlog material as fuel. Veneer 

 manufacture, ranking after lumber milling industrially, 

 accounted for only 5 percent of the drain, and pulpwood 

 (including distillation wood) less than 3 percent. 



Table 31.— Commodity drain on growing stock, 1938 

 SAW-TIMBER GROWING STOCK 



Commodity 



Lumber 



Veneer 



Cooperage 



Dimension stock _. 



Shingles 



Hewn cross ties 



Poles and piles 



Pulpwood ' 



Fuel wood _. 



Miscellaneous manufactures 2 

 Miscellaneous farm use 3 



All commodities 



Softwoods 



Hardwoods 



M board feet M board fee! 



All species 



1.210.0U0 

 8,900 



13, 000 

 400 



9,000 

 7, .500 



14. 100 

 57, 000 



360, 400 



700 



10, 500 



1,691,500 



248, 300 



110,000 



500 



11,800 



34, 400 

 negl. 

 5.000 

 108, 900 

 3,600 

 7,700 



530. 200 



M board feet 



1, 458, 300 



118, 900 



13, 500 

 12, 200 



9,000 

 41, 900 



14, 100 

 62, 000 



469, 300 

 4,300 

 18, 200 



2, 221, 700 



Percent 



65.6 



5.4 



.6 



.6 



.4 



1.9 



.6 



2.8 



21. 1 



.2 



.8 



100.0 



ALL SOUND TREES 



Lumber.. 



Veneer 



Cooperage 



Dimension stock 



Shingles 



Hewn cross ties 



Poles and piles 



Pulpwood 



Fuel wood 



Miscellaneous manufactures 

 Miscellaneous farm Vise 



All commodities 



Cords 



3. 349, 600 



23, 500 



34,900 



1, 2U0 



20, 800 



17.800 



37. 300 



250. 600 



1, 838, 000 



4.700 



87, 900 



5. 666, 300 



1,000 cubic 

 hit 

 406, 080 



Cords 



654. 300 



269, 500 



1.200 



30, 600 



91, 600 

 700 

 40, 300 

 1, 132, 300 

 10,800 

 57, 600 



2, 2s\900 



1,000 cubic 

 feet 

 149, 540 



Cords 



4, 003, 900 



293, 000 



36,-100 



31,800 



20,800 



109, 400 



38,000 



290, 900 



2, 970, 300 



15, 500 



145, 500 



7, 955, 200 



1,000 

 cubic 

 feet 

 288,300 

 20, 050 

 2,630 

 2,140 

 1,600 

 7,480 

 2,780 

 20, 080 

 199, 790 

 1,040 

 9,730 



i Includes distillation wood. 



2 Includes handles, shuttle blocks, tobacco baskets, insulator pins, and 

 excelsior. 



3 Includes fence posts cut and used on farms. 



4 5 inches d. b. h. and larger, including saw timber. 



Not all of the commodity drain represented utilization 

 within North Carolina. Approximately 86 million board 

 feet of unfinished timber products was purchased by 

 plants in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Vir- 

 ginia. Lumber was manufactured from 59 million feet 

 of the sawlogs shipped out of North Carolina, chiefly by 

 sawmills at Norfolk, Suffolk, and Franklin, Va. Nearly 

 8 million board feet of veneer bolts was sold in Virginia. 

 Cooperage logs totaling 3 million feet were also exported 

 to mills in Virginia. 



Total Drain from Sound Trees 



The commodity drain upon all sound trees 5 inches 

 d. b. h. and larger was almost 8 million cords (table 31), 

 of which 71 percent was on softwoods, and 29 percent 

 on hardwoods. Approximately 85 percent of the softwood 



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