pine; much of it came from mill waste, tops, and 

 dead and cull trees. The proportion obtainable 

 from these sources could be vastly increased, parti- 

 cularly from cull trees whose removal frequently im- 

 proves the growing conditions of the better stock. 

 This practice is especially recommended to farm 

 families, who are the principal users of fuel wood, 

 because their woodlands as a rule are readily acces- 

 sible, and labor is available during slack seasons. 

 Farmers can also improve the composition and 

 quality of their timber by using as fuel wood cull 

 trees, undesirable species, and weaker trees removed 

 from young stands. 



Other farm commodities supplied directly from 

 the forests include fence posts; stakes for peanuts, 

 forage, and truck crops; poles for bracing fences and 

 buildings; logs for building tobacco barns and other 

 structures; wood for repairing farm implements and 

 vehicles; splints for baskets; and many others. Al- 

 though the total volume of wood annually cut for 

 these purposes is not large, its availability in nearby 

 woodlands means a saving of time and expense to 

 many farmers. 



Employment in Forest Industries 



South Carolina's forest industries employed the 

 equivalent of about 31,600 full-time workers in 1940, 



assuming that all part-time workers were converted 

 to full-time labor on the basis of 260 eight-hour 

 working days per year (table 22). The lumber in- 

 dustry was the largest commercial employer, using 

 the equivalent of 10,400 full-time workers, more than 

 half of them in the mills (fig. 40); pulp and paper 

 was next, with 9,400 workers. Fuel-wood cutting 

 probably used the largest proportion of part-time 

 labor, equivalent to the full time of 7,400 persons, 

 nearly a quarter of all those engaged in wood-using 

 occupations. 



Table 22. — Estimated full-time labor required for South Carolina s 

 output of forest products, 1940 ^ 



Product 



Woods 



Mill 



Total 



Lumber... 



Men 



per year 



4.600 



4,900 



7,400 



830 



220 



460 



320 



200 



Men 



per year 



5,800 



4,500 



Men 

 per year 

 10,400 





9 400 





7,400 



Veneer 



1,660 

 380 • 



2,490 



Cooperage 



600 







320 



Others 



330 



530 







Total 



18.930 



12.670 









1 Part-time converted to full-time yearly employment 

 basis of 8 hours per day, 260 working days per year. 



Figure 40. — Loading loblolly 

 pine pulpwoodfor truck haul 

 to the railroad. Woods and 

 wood-using establishments in 

 South Carolina provided more 

 than 8 million man-hours of 

 employment in 1940. 



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