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FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PRODUCTS. 



development of this section. As it has the smallest cone and 

 shortest leaf of any pine in the eastern portion of the State it can 

 be readily distinguished. This pine has a wide distribution, 

 extending north to Massachusetts and west to Kansas and eastern 

 Texas. It always occurs mixed with hardwoods or other pines. 



Savanna pine cannot readily be distinguished from the lob- 

 lolly in young trees, but mature trees are easily separated. It 

 is a medium-sized tree, whose trunk holds its size well, being cov- 

 ered with limbs and knots for the upper two-thirds of its height. 

 The leaves are similar to those of the loblolly, but the bark is a 

 darker brown and smoother. It is always covered with cones, 

 which remain on for several seasons. These are shorter than the 

 cones of the loblolly, conical, and usually have the scales closely 

 oppressed. This species is of but little commercial value and is 

 rarely used for the reason that the wood is coarse-grained and 

 gummy, with, a large proportion of sap wood, and the trees are 

 frequently unsound. The savanna pine has been but slightly 

 affected by the causes which have operated to increase or diminish 

 the distribution of the other pines. Being sawn for lumber only 

 by accident, and growing only on a few kinds of soil, and such 

 soils as are unfit for agricultural purposes, the amount of it stand- 

 ing to-day is practically the same as formerly. 



FORESTS AND FOREST REGIONS IH EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. 



The following descriptions of the counties of the coastal plain 

 region show, in a general way, not onl}' the quantity of merchanta- 

 ble timber now standing in the several counties, but also, when 

 such figures were obtainable, the areas and character of such lands 

 as have been lumbered. They also show the condition in which 

 these lands were left after being cut over, and the kind of young 

 gro,wth which is succeeding the one removed, whether it be the 

 same or a different kind, and give such tracts as have been burnt 

 over after lumbering, on which the tender young growth and trees 

 which might serve for seed trees have been partially or completely 

 destroyed. 



The acreage of the various kinds of timber, excepting the long- 



