4 BULLETIN 272, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
The general inaccessibility of swamps and the difficulty of cruising 
by ordinary methods have probably strengthened in the case of 
cypress the general tendency to underestimate timber. Successive 
estimates of the total stand have constantly increased, in spite of 
the heavy annual cut. In 1897 an investigation placed the amount 
of standing cypress at 33,000,000,000 feet.t In 1909, however, the 
Bureau of Corporations estimated the amount of standing cypress 
at 40,000,000,000 feet, distributed by States as shown in Table 1. 
TaBLe 1.—Toial esitmated amount of standi::g cypress, by States." 
Per cent 
State. Total stand. of total 
stand. 
Board feet. 
TOUTS TAIT Sete eI A et rn ei the Ua ce eke as Reka Pei eae Lc 15, 700, 000, 000 38.9 
Miorida= ==. - SEE Rea ate ANS So Me Re 5 oY Ae AA Ss tee Roe CLT br eae ee een ew eta 10, 700, 000, 000 26.5 
INO REMC ATO Lit aaa a pe aes case ee nee Ser AE Os RS ee at ie em ee eg eS 3, 000, 000, 060 7.4 
GeO Plast is 5 ft a eas SR Se eee es a anes i Se Na a Bsa 3 Sree SN ce Bie 2, 800, 000, 000 6.9 
SO UGE CATO hiry soe we seats Fos Ree Steen Se pes Skye eeey (ae RIE A Ree ee a 2, 600, 000, 006 6.4 
STANT EEN NSE VGH i oy as a Ore ae peed ce Ae ioe a AA tara hs A ne anrees Ae geal Deen | See | 2,200, 000, 000 5.5 
METSS USSU PO Mets ees a ess a are Pete re Nt A PT Ny Ieee Mm age, I 1, 900, 000, 000 4.7 
MEIGS UIDs sce aera Mec nam cere ee ie ee aes RPT EU aI cg ceo eg eI Pee gE | 900, 000, 000 2.2 
NIE) ORICO 2 Sk aca e aon sear SIS ose eae Sa ocaeoe te ye aon 2S ee else | 200, 000, 000 -d 
VIR Oa Tyas ere, eee ra ete AA od et eee 2 Sate Re ee aN a Wee te we | 200, 600, 000 5 
LA SD ASP Ss ae ik rt ee My ae Oe ade a ene Sea Ale a oe | 200, 000, 000 so 
TG GAN ESS yee SOR ae LUD Whe at Sie ie a eee a ee er | 40, 400, 000, 000 100.0 
1 Department of Labor, Bureau of Corporations, ‘‘The Lumber Industry, Part I, Standing Timber,” 
p. 76. To these figures, which represent the stand privately owned in all States, should be added a small 
amount of State and Federal timber and private timber in Maryland, Tennessee, and Kentucky. 
Thus, Louisiana was credited with nearly 40 per cent and Florida 
with more than one-quarter of all the standing cypress. 
Stands of second growth are becoming merchantable, and may 
now be included. The Louisiana Conservation Commission in its 
report for 1914 estimates the present cypress stand of that State at 
14,130,000,000 feet. This is only 570,000,000 feet less than was 
given by the estimate of 1909 quoted above, yet Louisiana in 1912 
alone cut over 653,000,000 feet, and has been cutting at about the 
same rate annually during the five years since 1909. Owners are 
invariably cautious about giving out information regarding the 
amounts of timber in their holdings. This situation and the factor 
of annual growth being taken into account, the total stand of cypress 
in 1914 is believed to be not less than 40,000,000,000 feet. 
ANNUAL CUT. 
The total cut of cypress lumber in 1913, exclusive of lath and 
shingles, was 1,097,247,000 board feet.?, Since shingles and lath are 
made from the slabs and other kinds of ‘‘mill waste,’ and poles and 
ties are usually cut from small sizes not considered in the original 
1 Mohr, Dr. Charles, Report for the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
2 The Bureau of Crop Estimates, in cooperation with the Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
based upon reports of 607 mills. Reports from mills cutting less than 50,000 feet not included. 
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