summarizes the cubic-foot volume of sound wood, 

 exclusive of bark, in pine, hardwood, and cypress 

 trees 5 inches d. b. h. and larger, and in the different 

 classes of material. 



In 1936 South Carolina had 10.7 billion cubic feet 

 of growing stock: 4.9 billion pine, 5.4 billion hard- 

 wood, and 0.4 billion cypress. The Coastal Plain 

 had 71 percent of the pine and 81 percent of the 

 hardwood. For the State as a whole, 48 percent 

 was in sawlogs, 14 percent in tops of saw-timber 

 trees, 27 percent in under-sawlog-size trees, and 1 1 

 percent in cull trees. 



Poles 



An estimated 35 million trees, with the form and 

 freedom from defects required for poles and piles, ac- 

 cording to the specifications of the American Stand- 

 ards Association, are scattered throughout the pine 

 stands of South Carolina, principally on the better 

 sites. Nearly three-fourths are in the 20- to 25-foot 

 classes and less than 1 percent are 45 feet or longer 

 (tables 16 and 34, Appendix). Nearly 80 percent of 



all pine poles, and over 90 percent of those 40 feet or 

 longer, are on the Coastal Plain. Since much of this 

 material will be cut for sawlogs or other products, 

 the information is presented chiefly because it indi- 

 cates the relative distribution of trees by length and 

 diameter classes. The timber volume of pole trees 

 has been included in the tables showing board-foot, 

 cordwood, and cubic-foot volume. 



Table 16. — Estimated number of pine poles in South Carolina 

 Jorests, by length and tree-diameter class, 1936 



Tree-diameter 

 class (inches) 



20-25 

 feet 



30-35 

 feet 



40 feet 



All lengths 



8-10 



1. 000 

 poles 

 18,877 

 6.447 

 629 



1.000 

 poles 

 2,689 



l!o91 



1.000 

 poles 

 137 

 799 

 285 



1 .000 

 poles 

 21.703 

 11,364 

 2,005 



Percent 

 61 9 







16-18 



5 7 







Total 



f25,9S3 

 { Percent 

 I 74.0 



7.898 



Percent 



22.5 



1,221 



Percent 



3.5 



35,072 



100.0 

 100.0 



37 



