commodity drain upon. Florida’s forests. Sawlog 
drain for the production of lumber amounted to 515 
million board feet in 1948, or 55 percent of the 
commodity drain upon sound live saw timber. 
In 1948, 684 sawmills in Florida (fig. 3) produced 
571 million board feet of lumber, including sawn 
cross ties. Practically all of this lumber was cut from 
sawlogs harvested within the State, but about 34 
million feet of logs were imported from Alabama and 
Georgia. Some lumber was also cut from the top 
portion of the bole that was not considered as of 
sawlog quality by the survey. 
A rather high proportion of the lumber was cut 
by medium-size and large mills (fig. 4); more than 
a third of all the lumber produced in 1948 was sawn 
by 17 mills cutting 5 million board feet or more. 
Forty mills cutting 3 million or more produced more 
than one-half (table 3). This is in contrast to many 
of the other Southern States. In South Carolina, for 
instance, mills cutting 3 million feet or more in 1946 
accounted for only 27 percent of the total cut. 
A large number of the small sawmills (annual 
production less than 5 million feet) together produce 
very little lumber; 400 small mills cut only 6.2 per- 
Ne ge! e soa ee ao ee 
PRODUCTION 
IN 
THOUSAND BOARD FEET 
1948 
Idle 
1 to 999 
1,000 to 2,999 
3,000 to 4,999 
5,000 to 9,999 
10,000 or more 
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tent 3 
aATESS. 
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Figure 3.—Location and size of Florida sawmills, 1948. 
8 Forest Resource Report No. 6, U. S. Department of Agriculture \1 
