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BULLETIN 506, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
from Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, includes both 
loblolly and shortleaf pine. Slash pine is usually cut and sold along 
with longieaf pine. The several species, in order of importance, are : 
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustHs) : Also commonly called hard pine 
and Georgia pine and exported as pitch pine. Cut principally in the 
Gulf States. 
Loblolly pine {Pinus tceda) : " Loblolly " is not used generally by 
the trade, which calls this pine shortleaf, oldfield, rosemary, and 
Virginia pine. Cut mostly in Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro- 
lina, Arkansas, and Texas, and to a less extent in the other Gulf 
States and Georgia. 
Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) : Cut mostly in Arkansas, Vir- 
ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi, 
and to a less extent in the other yellow-pine States. 
Slash (or Cuban) pine (Pinus caribcea) : Cut in Georgia and 
Gulf States east of Mississippi Eiver. 
Scrub pine (Pinus virginiana) : Also called Jersey pine. Middle 
Atlantic States. 
Pitch pine (Pinus rigida) : Middle Atlantic and Northern States. 
Spruce pine (Pinus glabra) : Gulf States. 
Pond pine (Pinus serotina) : South Atlantic States. 
Sand pine (Pinus clausa) : Florida and Alabama. 
Table-mountain pine (Pinus puny ens) : Appalachian Mountains. 
Table 5. — Reported production of yelloiv pine lumber, 1915. 
[Computed total production in United States, 14,700,000 M feet b. m.] 
State. 
United States. 
Louisiana 
Mississippi 
Texas 
North Carolina 
Arkansas 
Alabama 
Florida 
South Carolina 
Virginia 
Georgia 
Oklahoma 
Missouri 
Tennessee 
Maryland 
Kentucky 
All other States (see Summarv 
p. 38). 
Principal species cut. 
Longleaf 
do 
Longleaf and loblolly. . 
Loblolly and shortleaf. 
Shortleaf and loblolly. 
Longleaf 
do 
Loblolly and shortleaf. 
do 
Longleaf and loblolly . 
Shortleaf 
....do 
do 
Loblolly and shortleaf. 
Shortleaf 
Number 
of active 
mills 
report- 
ing. 
6,006 
205 
512 
238 
1,194 
391 
618 
185 
380 
907 
561 
51 
84 
235 
129 
76 
240 
Quantity 
reported, 
M feet 
b. m. 
12,177,335 
2, 881, 615 
1, 657, 887 
1,557,270 
1, 130, 144 
1, 082, 155 
1, 023, 306 
830, 815 
592, 184 
562, 926 
525, 747 
161, 951 
50, 421 
48, 523 
25, 625 
12, 909 
33, 857 
Per 
cent. 
Average 
value per 
M feet 
f. o. b. 
mill. 
100.0 
23.7 
13.6 
12.8 
9.3 
8.9 
8.4 
6.8 
4.9 
4.6 
4.3 
1.3 
.4 
.4 
.2 
.1 
.3 
S12.41 
12.35 
12.30 
12.58 
12.21 
12.99 
12.13 
12.29 
12.56 
12.59 
11.93 
12.76 
12.15 
11.78 
13.19 
13.47 
DOUGLAS FIR. 
Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga tavi folia) of the Western States is 
available in larger stands than any other single species in the United 
