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Title: Forest conditions in western North Carolina
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, J. S. (John Simcox), 1868-1958 United States. Forest Service
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Raleigh, N.C. : Edwards & Broughton Printing Co.
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
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e easternmost counties, go to out-side tanneries. About two-thirds of the bark from the mountain counties is chestnutoak. This tree has been cut and peeled for bark on most of the landswithin 15 or 20 miles of the railway, except such as have been reservedby lumber companies, and sometimes by the tanning companies them-selves. So far the bulk of the chestnut oak bark has been cut andmarketed by farmers, who got for this product nearly $180,000 in 1909.Chestnut oak, as well as black and white oak, and, occasionally, scarlet,red, and Spanish oak, are peeled in the spring from the time the budsfirst begin to swell to the time the leaves are fully formed, chiefly dur-ing April and May. After being peeled, the bark is allowed to dry outthoroughly, so that it will keep when stacked away in bulk, and so thatit will be light for hauling, which is done through the summer, gen-erally after the crops are laid by. Yet at present prices—about $8.50 N. C. GEOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC SURVEY. PLATE VI.
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TANNING INDUSTRY. A. TANNEBY OF COVER & SONS, ANDREWS. B. Unloading bark prom cars and storing in shed. C. A LARGE CROP. STACKING SURPLUS BABK IN THE OPEN. FOREST CONDITIONS IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. 71 per cord at the railroad—there is little clear profit, though it furnishesready money for work at a time when men and teams would otherwisebe idle. In Table 3 chestnut oak may include many others, because somecounties did not differentiate the species. The price of black oak aver-ages about $5.25 per cord delivered at the railroad, and white oak runsabout 50 cents more. If the demand for the bark of these two oakswould justify an increase in price, the bark could be utilized in con-nection with lumbering. As it is now the bark is nearly all wastedbecause it will not pay to save it. Hemlock bark, though forming only about one-tenth of the annualconsumption in the region, comprises about one-quarter of the output.This discrepancy is due to the fact that much of the bark from theea

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