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Table 8. — Commercial forest land area for Mississippi, by Survey region and class of ownership, 1946-48 



Ownership 



Private: 



Cotton, general, and cotton-vegetable farmer ' 



Other farmer '__ 



Businessman, housewife, wage earner, and professional worker- 

 Lumber company 



Pulp company 



Sawmill-farmer 



Concentration-yard owner 



Other forest industry 



Real estate company and land speculator -_ 



Miscellaneous 



Total. 



Public: 



National forest. 



County 



Other public 



Total.. 1 



AH ownership. 



State 



Thousand 



acres 



4,400.4 



2,588.0 



5,077.2 



1,162.6 



548.2 



275.8 



224.2 



81.5 



121.2 



306.3 



14,785.4 



1,034.7 

 414.8 

 2274.0 



1,723.5 



16,508.9 



North 



Thousand 



acres 



1,396.7 



388.5 



1,303.1 



82.8 



71.9 

 141.1 



8.2 

 45.0 



3,437.3 



121.3 

 40.1 

 116.3 



277.7 



3,715.0 



Central 



Thousand 



acres 



1,433.1 



1,265.6 



1,505.9 



496.8 



360.9 



101.8 



73.1 



54.2 

 94.1 



5,385.5 



360,2 



185,4 



76,5 



622.1 



6,007.6 



South 



Thousand 



acres 



1,018.6 



598.2 



1,572.7 



400.0 



180.3 



33.0 



10.0 



53.0 



50.0 



124.8 



4,040.6 



494.3 

 142.0 

 69.0 



705.3 



4,745.9 



Delta 



Thousand 



acres 



552,0 



335,7 



695,5 



183.0 



7.0 



69.1 



28.5 



8.8 



42.4 



1,922.0 



58.9 

 47.3 

 12,2 



118.4 



2,040.4 



^ Farm woodland, as classified by the Bureau of the Census, totals 6,9 million acres in Mississippi — 2,1 million acres in the North region, 2,7 million acres in the 

 Central region, 1,2 million acres in the South, and 0,9 million acres in the Delta, 



2 The Indian Service holds 10,000 acres of this total — 9,900 acres in the Central region, and 100 acres in the South, 



Table 9. — Commercial forest land area for Mississippi, by stand size and class of ownership, 1946-48 



Ownership 



Private: 



Cotton, general, and cotton-vegetable farmer 



Other farmer 



Businessman, housewife, wage earner, and professional worker. 



Lumber company 



Pulp company 



Sa wmill-farmer 



Concentration-yard owner 



Other forest industry 



Real estate company and land speculator 



Miscellaneous . 



Total. 



Public: 



National forest. 



County 



Other public 



Total-. 

 All ownership. 



All stands 



Thousand 



acres 



4,400,4 



2,588.0 



5,077.2 



1,162.6 



548.2 



275.8 



224.2 



81.5 



121.2 



306,3 



14,785.4 



1,034.7 

 414.8 

 274.0 



1,723,5 



16,508,9 



Saw timber 



Thousand 



acres 



1,354.1 



974.7 



1,649.7 



509.1 



300.4 



119.3 



84.4 



30.4 



42.5 



92.1 



5,156,7 



464,5 

 203,9 

 119,9 



5,945.0 



Cordw 



Thousand 



acres 



2,005.9 



926.8 



2,063.3 



311,7 



153,1 



117.6 



108,6 



24,9 



41,6 



122,6 



5,876,1 



336,6 



82.7 



110.8 



530.1 



6,406,2 



Othe 



Thousand 



acres 



1,040,4 



686.5 



1,364.2 



341.8 



94.7 



38.9 



31.2 



26.2 



37,1 



91.6 



3,752. 



233,6- 

 128,2 



43,3 



405,1 



4,157.7 



