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FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
and a great variety of hardwoods, but the valleys are now mostly
under cultivation.
The high rugged mountain region of Northeast Georgia con
tains most of the same trees as Northwest Georgia, and white
pine and hemlock in -addition. Owing principally to the broken
topography, the forests are more nearly in a primeval condition
than in any other equal area in the State.
Middle Georgia, the Piedmont region, is moderately hilly, with
red clayey soils derived from granite and gneiss. It was originally
wooded with short-leaf pines, oaks, hickories, etc., and some long-
leaf pine in the western part, but the forests are now mostly
confined to slopes too steep or rocky for profitable cultivation.
Three-fifths of the State, from Augusta, Milledgeville, Macon
and Columbus southward, known as South Georgia, belongs to
the coastal plain. At the inner or upper edge of this division
there is a narrow belt of sand-hills, characterized by long-leaf
pine, black-jack oak, and other trees that thrive in poor soils.
South of that is a wider belt of fertile red hills, somewhat similar
in aspect to Middle Georgia, but with quite a number of trees
that are confined to the coastal plain or nearly so, such as black
and spruce pine, cypress, and magnolia.
Between these red hills and the coast is the long-leaf pine
region proper, or wiregrass country. At its inland edge, particu
larly along the Flint River, is the lime-sink region, with more
ponds than streams. The middle portion is more hilly, with run-
CABBAGE PALMETTO IN PINE FLATS, GLYNN COUNTY
One small town in Mid
dle Georgia makes buggy
bodies for three buggy
factories in Ohio, two in
Indiana, and sends more
than two thousand
bodies abroad each year.
The poplar that goes
into these buggy bodies
is from Georgia forests,
where there are still
standing many thous
ands of acres of this
valuable timber.
By new methods of con
trolled distillation tur
pentine and rosin may
b e extracted from
stumps and light wood,
by processes that per
mit the manufacture of
paper from the extract
ed chips. Naval stores
industry will boom.