STAND BY BLOCKS. 27 
The total yield of the three pines on the whole of this block is: 
Board feet. 
Cutting to a limit of 12 inches diameter breasthigh---. 35, 358, 000 
Cutting to a limit of 14 inches diameter breasthigh .... 34, 045, 000 
Cutting to a limit of 16 inches diameter breasthigh.... 31, 962, 000 
Cutting to a limit of 18 inches diameter breasthigh.... 29, 104, 000 
Block VI occupies the remainder of the tract, sections 11, 12, 15, 
D ) 
#4, 15, 19, 20, 21, 22, 93, and 24. of T.23.N.,R.17E. Its area is 
made up of: 
Acres. Per cent. 
ieonetent pine land: cos 42 ok oe oe eee 6, 122 86. 8 
ieroeicelaiie:. 28.2 oe Si BAe ee el ee eee 583 a 
Gena AARC: <2 on 32 ef es SO Se ee ee ee 344 4.9 
Migiades (oct ela eh ee ne eee ee 7,049 100.0 
From a botanical point of view, this is the most interesting part of 
the tract, but to the forester it is the least valuable. Almost the 
whole area is taken up with steep, rocky hills and ridges of the 
Weogutka Range. 
_ On the shallow, dry, sandy soils of the upper slopes and tops of the 
ridges the longleaf pine is stunted, slow-growing, and rarely reaches a 
large diameter. The stand is generally open. On the northern and 
western exposures the hardwoods and sometimes the loblolly pine mix 
with the longleaf. The best developed stands on the block are in 
the northern halves of sections 11, 15, 19, 20, and 21, on the moder- 
‘ate northerly slopes, where the land rises gradually from the rolling 
country of Blocks ITV and V, and in sections 22 and 28, south of 
Weogufka Mountain, where the hills give way to the rolling country 
lying beyond the southern boundary of the tract. 
As compared with the rest of the tract, logging on Block VI would 
be very expensive. In the roughest parts, where the building of rail- 
roads and handling of timber would be most difficult, the stand is often 
so light that logging under present market conditions would not pay. 
_ The average stand and yield on the longleaf pine land, as shown in 
the tables below, is poorer than on any other part of the tract. On 
the creek type the stand of loblolly pine is a trifle above the average, 
but is far from being heavy enough to be of any great importance. 
Table XI gives the average stand per acre of the three pines on 
longleaf pine land, and of the three pines and the more important 
hardwoods on creek land. The average yield per acre of each pine 
on each type can be found in Tables XI and XII. 
