Report upon the forestry investigations of the of agriculture1877-1898 . n the best-drained, deep, sandy, siliceous alluvium, while the Cuban pine is confined to the moister flats orpine meadows of the coast, and will grow closely down to the sandy swamps, not objecting toclayey admixtures in the soil, but shunning the dry, sandy pine hills. The shortleaf i^iue prefersa well-drained, light, sandy or gravelly clay soil or warm light loam, while the loblolly, oftenstruggling with the shortleaf for the possession of the soil, can adapt itself to wetter situations. Extent of Meechant
Report upon the forestry investigations of the of agriculture1877-1898 . n the best-drained, deep, sandy, siliceous alluvium, while the Cuban pine is confined to the moister flats orpine meadows of the coast, and will grow closely down to the sandy swamps, not objecting toclayey admixtures in the soil, but shunning the dry, sandy pine hills. The shortleaf i^iue prefersa well-drained, light, sandy or gravelly clay soil or warm light loam, while the loblolly, oftenstruggling with the shortleaf for the possession of the soil, can adapt itself to wetter situations. Extent of Meechantable Pine. The entire region within which these pines occur in merchantable condition comprises about230,000 square miles or, in round numbers, 147,000,000 acres; for laud in farms, etc., 10,000,000acres must be deducted, and allowing as much as two-thirds of the remainder as representing pinelands (the other to hard woods), we would have abou t 90,000,000 acres on which pine may average growth of 3,000 feet per acre—an extravagant figure when referred to such an area—.
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