Figure 16. — Fuel j or the kitchen stove comes from the farm wood lot. 



Forests and Water Resources 



In South Carolina, where industries depend largely 

 upon water supplies and water power, forest or other 

 vegetal cover must be maintained on watersheds to 

 help control erosion, regulate stream flow, and im- 

 prove the purity of the water. 



Table 1. — Farm value of South Carolina agricultural products, 1937 



Commodity 



Farm vak 



e 





Dollars 

 '52.840.000 

 122.481,000 

 118,709,000 

 26.623,000 

 339.747.000 



Ptrcent 





16 



Corn 



13.3 





4.7 



All other farm products 



28 3 









140.400.000 

 104,700,000 





Total cash income 









' Estimates by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics {^14-). 



2 Of the amount shown, 25 percent ($1,639,842) represents 

 cash income from sale of forest products. (U. S. Forest Service 

 and Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Farm forest pro- 

 ducts, 1937. (Processed.) 1940.) 



2 This figure duplicates in part the item of forest products. 



Table 2. — Forest products sold from South Carolina farms, and 

 grown and used on farms, 1937^ 



SOLD FROM FARMS 





M bd. ft. 







Lumber 



do 



Fuel wood 



cords 











Crossties 



do 



Posts 



do. __ 



Other produc 

 Total 



127,180 

 58.462 

 8.500 

 159,759 

 70.852 

 104.206 

 124,956 

 308.732 



Dollars 

 554,505 

 298,156 

 119.840 

 359.458 

 93.525 

 87.533 

 33,738 

 30,873 

 62.214 



GROWN AND USED ON FARMS 



Fuel wood cords __ 



1,580,546 

 60,697 



4,845,977 

 20,799 



3,556.228 



Posts number.. 



484.598 



Shingles million pieces 



63 021 













Total 





4 983 396 









1 U. S. Forest Service and Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 

 Farm forest products, 1937. (Processed.) 1940. 



The State's water needs are supplied chiefly by 

 four fairly large river systems and numerous smaller 

 streams. The Pee Dee River cuts across the north- 

 ern part of the Sand hills and the Coastal Plain. 

 The Santee, formed by the confluence of the Wateree 

 and Congaree, drains the larger part of the piedmont 

 through numerous tributaries, notably the Catawba, 

 Broad, and Saluda Rivers, and flows southeasterly 

 through the middle of the State to the Atlantic. 

 The Edisto bisects the Coastal Plain south of the 

 Santee; and the Savannah, with many South Caro- 

 lina tributaries, forms the southwestern boundary of 

 the State. 



The relation of forests to water resources is par- 

 ticularly close in the mountains and on the pied- 

 mont, which, together with the mountain and pied- 

 mont regions of North Carolina and Georgia, forms 

 one of the major water-power regions of the United 

 States. In South Carolina numerous important 

 streams either rise in or cross this region. High an- 

 nual rainfall, combined with available sites for reser- 

 voirs, are favorable to the development of abund- 

 ant, inexpensive hydroelectric power. Although 

 only about half of its potential power had been har- 

 nessed'*, South Carolina ranked sixth among the 



■* United States National Resources Committee. Inven- 

 tory OF the water resources of the united states. (South 

 Atlantic and Eastern Gulf Drainage Areas.) (Processed). 1935. 



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