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FORESTS, FOREST LANDS AND FOREST PEODFCTS. 



millmen for their lands. This does not include any regrowth 

 which is now occupying areas already lumbered. 



USES OF THE IMPORTANT WOODS IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. 



The long-leaf pine serves for more uses than any other tree of 

 this section. Its largest uses are for heavy building material for 

 houses, bridges, trestles and other places where great strength and 

 length of timber are required : for tank plank, flooring, ceiling, 

 weather-boarding, shingles, railroad cross-ties, and filing. Its 

 special qualities as a wood are not yet sufficiently understood by 

 consumei's, and it is put to a great many uses to which an inferior 

 and weaker timber might as well be applied. Its use as tank 

 plank is one to which it has only lately been extensively put, but 

 one to which it is well adapted on account of its durability. It is 

 extensively used for fencing and posts, and in tlie form of split 

 rails, throughout all the south-eastern section of this State. 



The loblolly pine is manufactured chiefly into flooring and ceil- 

 ing, and to some extent into scantling for frame work, bridge timber, 

 etc. For the last uses the wood is not so well suited as that of 

 the long-leaf pine, though it is extensively used when the long- 

 leaf cannot be gotten. Railroad cross-ties are made from it in the 

 north-eastern counties, but they decay rapidly, since the}^ are 

 largely or entirely of sap wood, and are in contact with a soil 

 unusually damp during the greater part of the year. 



The short-leaf and savanna pines have the same uses as the lob- 

 lolly, though the wood of both trees is different from that of the 

 loblolly. The lobloll}' pine is also largely used for fencing. 



The yelloiv poplar is manufactured into boards for box stufl', and 

 some of the best quality of lumber into furniture squares. The 

 poplar of the eastern swamps, however, is of an inferior quality 

 when compared with that from the western part of the State, and 

 can only be put to secondary uses. It makes excellent fencing. 



Ash is sawn into furniture squares, banister and newel post 

 pieces, and some of the lower grades of wood into boards. Barrel 

 hoops are extensiveh' made from it. Like the poplar its quality 

 is not as high as the ash from the western counties. 



Whiie cedar (juniper) is now recognized as one of the most 



