Table 14. — Net cordwood volume {including bark) of all living trees 5 inches d. b. h. and larger, by class of material, 1936 



Undei 



State: 



Pines 



Hardwoods _ 



Cypress 



All species 



Southern Coastal Plain 



Pines 



Hardwoods 



Cypress 



All species 



Northern Coastal Plair 



Pines 



Hardwoods 



Cypress 



All species 



Piedmont: 



Pines 



Hardwoods 



All species 



Summary by units: 

 Southern Coastal PI; 

 Northern Coastal PI, 

 Piedmont 



State average 



42. 365. 2 

 25,767.2 

 3.324.9 



16.014.6 



27.455.7 

 860.7 



1.632.5 



17.007.0 



489.5 



Thousand 



cords 

 68.358.1 

 84,209.9 

 5,661.3 



158.229.3 



12,863.1 

 7.834.9 



2,591.2 



4,186.0 



385.0 



4,041.0 



3M\.l 



464.3 



145.1 

 ,806.2 

 173.4 



19,640.4 



25,238.3 

 2,250.9 



18,983.7 

 13,559.1 

 2,096.7 



3,767.4 



7,451.0 



601.2 



4,966.0 



12,191.0 



396.4 



9,658.6 

 316.1 



28,305.8 

 42,859.7 

 3,410.4 



10,518.4 

 4.373.2 



1,987.2 

 2,343.0 



7.007.6 

 5.853.5 



898.7 

 3.542.2 



.411.9 

 ,111.9 



46.5 

 46.5 

 40.7 



Percent 

 15.2 

 15.8 



Percent 



29.5 

 23.5 

 35.2 



14.2 

 12.2 



36,523.8 



Percent 

 100.0 

 100.0 

 100.0 



28.0 



100.0 



Percent 



53.2 

 3.6 



100.0 



41.7 

 53.5 



57.4 

 4.6 



55.9 

 44.1 



From the 44 million cords in under-sawlog-size 

 trees will come the sawlogs of the future. Thinning 

 and short-rotation management for pulpwood or 

 other material may justify cutting young stands be- 

 fore they reach sawlog size; otherwise, under-sawlog- 

 size trees should be reserved as growing stock, to be 

 cut later for lumber, veneer, or other saw-timber 

 products. 



The 19 million cords in cull trees are largely an 

 economic loss, since only occasionally can this class 

 of material be salvaged profitably. The 1.6 million 

 cords of cull pine are suitable for pulpwood and fuel 

 wood, and some of it is being used for these purposes, 

 particularly in stands cut for sawlogs or pulpwood. 

 A large proportion, however, of the cull pines is con- 

 tained in widely scattered trees in thin stands that 

 cannot be logged economically. 



Utilization of cull hardwoods, which constitute 20 

 percent of the hardwood volume, presents a more 

 difficult problem. These trees are unsuited for saw 

 timber because of crook, rot, excessive limbiness, or 

 other defects. In the extensive hardwood swamps 



of the Coastal Plain there is little opportunity for 

 utilizing culls, except occasionally, for small dimen- 

 sion or cooperage bolts, cut when the areas are logged 

 for saw timber. In the nearly pure stands of black- 

 gum, known locally as "gumheads," which are found 

 in many smaller sw'amps, the trees are usually of 

 poor form and unsuited for sawlogs. They make 

 good pulpwood, however, and occur in heavy stands 

 which are often accessible to public roads. The 

 tendency of southern pulp mills to use increasing 

 proportions of soft-textured hardwoods may provide 

 a market for these otherwise unmerchantable stands. 

 Another effective outlet for cull, trees, particularly 

 oak and other hard-textured hardwoods in the upper 

 Coastal Plain and piedmont regions, is the market 

 for fuel wood, both for home use and for curing 

 brightleaf tobacco. 



Volume by Diameter Class 



Distribution of the cordwood volume of sound 

 trees (culls excluded) by diameter class for the State 



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