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MISSISSIPPI S FOREST RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIES 



Table 6. — Land area of Mississippi, by Surrey region, classified according to land use, 7946—48 



Land use 



Stat: 



North 



Central 



South 



Delia 



Forest: i 



Commercial- -__ __ __- 



Thousand 

 acres 



16,508.9 

 23.6 



Thousand 

 acres 



3,715.0 



7.9 



Thousand 

 acres 



6,007.6 

 12.4 



Thousand 

 acres 



4,745.9 

 ■ 5 



Thousand 

 acres 



2,040.4 





2.S 







Total - - --- 



16,532.5 



3,722.9 



6,020.0 



4,746.4 



2,043.2 





Farm nonforest: - 



6,585.9 



850.4 



4,232.4 



1,000.8 



1,944.0 

 252.1 



1,749.4 

 419.6 



1,655.2 

 339.8 



1,777.3 

 262.7 



685.6 

 99.1 



282.8 

 66.5 



2,301.1 





159.4 





422.9 



Other farm . .. .. -, . 



252 







Total . -- - - -. _ 



12,669.5 



4,365.1 



4,035.0 



1,134.0 



3,135 4 









1,146.8 



308.2 



243.8 



308.4 



286 4 







All land - - -__ _ . 



30,348.8 



8,396.2 



10,298.8 



1 6,188.8 



5 465 







1 Xo forest land was classed noncommercial because of its incapacity to produce commercial timber. 

 • Based on 1945 Census of Agriculture. 



Table 1 , —Commercial and reserved-commercial Jor est land area for Mississippi, by class of ownership, 1946-48 



Ownership 



Commercial forest 



Reser\"ed-commercial 

 forest 



Private : 



Cotton general and cotton-vegetable farmer ^ 



Thousand 

 acres 



4,400.4 



2,588.0 



5,077.2 



1,162.6 



548.2 



275.8 



224.2 



33.0 



48.5 



121.2 



306.3 



Percent 



26.7 



15.7 



30.7 



7.0 



3.3 



1.7 



1.4 



.2 



.3 



.7 



1.9 



Thousand 



acres Percent 



Other farmer 

















Sawmill-farmer -_ _ __ -': 











1 







Real estate companv and land speculator _ .. 













Total __ - - -- - _- - 



14,785.4 



89.6 







"" 



Public: 



1,0.34.7 

 70.3 

 30.0 



2 89.5 

 29.1 

 55.1 



414.8 



6.3 

 .4 

 .2 

 .5 

 .2 

 .3 



2.5 



0.6 2.5 



Soil Conservation Serv'ice _ - __ 









Other Federal ~ - -- -- 



11.2 47.5 







Other State - - -- 



11. 8 50.0 











Total - -- -- 



1,723.5 



10.4 



23.6 100.0 











16,508.9 



100.0 



23.6 



inn 







' F.-irm woodland, as classified by the Bureau of the Census, totals 6.9 million acres in Mississippi. 

 ■ 10.000 acres of this total arc held by the Indian Service. 



