Forest in the Southern Appalachians. Dogwood in Flower 



crop during the same period has been 

 450.000,000 bushels, with a farm value 

 of $325,000,000, or less than three- 

 fourths of the value of its forest 

 products. Great labor, much time and 

 money have been spent to produce these 

 crops of cotton and of corn, which have 

 averaged less than two-fifths of a bale 



of cotton per acre, and less than seven- 

 teen bushels of corn per acre. Nothing" 

 has been done by man to produce the 

 immense crop of forest products which 

 he has harvested. Nature has sown 

 and grown, he has only reaped, and 

 generally without regard to the future 

 of the forest. 



