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Ficure 7.—In 1948, timber cut for pulpwood in Florida accounted for 38 percent of the commodity drain on the forest, 
nearly equalling the amount cut for sawlogs. 
2 percent of the commodity drain on the forest. The 
reason for this is that only 13 percent of the 352,000 
cords of fuel wood was cut from sound live trees of 
commercial species. Almost one-half was from dead 
material, mainly pine stumps, fallen branches, and 
dead trees. One-fourth of the fuel-wood production 
was from cull trees and scrub oak. 
Wood is still the most used fuel for heating rural 
homes, but the use of other fuels is becoming in- 
creasingly common. Also, in recent years most of the 
tobacco farmers have converted to oil for tobacco 
curing. As a result, production of fuel wood in 1948 
was only 27 percent as great as in 1936. 
The production of all other wood products ex- 
a : : eal cept pulpwood, poles, and piling followed the down- 
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1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945° 1946 1947 1948 ward trend of lumber. Between 1936 and 1948, the 
YEAR a ; 
production of veneer logs and bolts from Florida 
Figure 8.—Pulpwood production, Florida, 1939-48. timber dropped 28 percent, the production of hewn 
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