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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



an acre for each year of its growth, and, at current stump- 

 age prices for puli)vvood in North CaroHna and Louisiana, 

 $1 to $1.50 per year in pulpwood, or a total of $j to $2.50 

 yearly during the life of the stand. 



A calculation by the Forest Service of tin.- niinibcr of 

 cords of pul])\vood yielded by well stocked stands of 

 slash pines of different ages gives a yearly production of 

 about one cord of peeled wood per acre from stands 

 roughly 10 to i6 years old, and i>4 cords per acre from 

 stands over this age up to 25 years. These are natural 

 stands subject to annual burning and the slowing up in 

 growth due to direct injury to the trees and loss of organic 

 matter or humus from the soil. Under forest manage- 

 ment this growth should be materially increased. Part 

 of the story of growth will be found by the reader 

 in connection with the several accompanying jihoto- 

 graphs. 



In the course of the economic development in progress 

 over the South, the South Atlantic and Gulf States have 



a sjilendid op])ortunity to utilize profitably their hundreds 

 of thousands of acres of sandy, "barren" lands by hand- 

 ling them for turpentine and pine timber products from 

 second growth slash pine stands. 



Slash pine possesses some striking silvicultmal and 

 economic qualities. Its high prodviction of crude tur- 

 pentine is recognized among all operators. INlr. C. F. 

 Speh, Secretary of the Turpentine and Rosin Producers 

 Association of New Orleans, is authority for the state- 

 ment that slash ])ine not only produces larger quantities 

 of crude turjientine, but also a whiter and higher grade 

 of rosin than does longleaf ])ine. By official tests of the 

 Forest Products Laboratory of the U. S. Forest Service 

 the wood ranks as the heaviest, hardest and strongest 

 wood of anv coniferous species in the L^iitcd .States. The 

 tree seeds rather freely, bearing a small, light, winged 

 seed easily carried by the wind, is readily and successfully 

 handled in the nursery and in forest planting, and its 

 growth is vigorous and rapid. 



TRACTS ADDED TO FORESTS 



PURCHASES totaling 66,381 acres in the White 

 Mountains, the southern Appalachians and 

 Arkansas at an average price of $3.91 jjer acre have 

 just been approved by the National Forest Reservation 

 Commission, a body created by Congress to purchase 

 land on the headwaters of navigable streams for the 

 protection of their watersheds. The action of the com- 

 mission means that usefulness of the new National For- 

 ests in the East, the inception of which dates from the 

 beginning of purchase work in 1911, will be greatly in- 

 creased. 



C^f the above total 362,288 acres arc in tlie White 

 .Mountains, constituting about one-half of the mountain 

 lands which it is desirable to acquire in the White 

 Mountains of New^ Hampshire and adjoining portions 

 of Maine for the protection of the headwaters of im- 

 ])ortant streams. The purchase which has been author- 

 ized in the White Mountains consists of 1,650 acres of 

 timbered land in ( )xford County, Maine, at an average 

 price of $9 an acre. 



In the Monongahela area. Tucker County, West Vir- 

 ginia. 23,900 acres of cut-over land were approved for 

 purchase at an average price of $2.34 an acre ; also the 

 purchase of 489 acres in Hardy County, West Virginia, 

 on the Potomac area, at an average price of $4.34 an 

 acre. 



In Virginia a total of 14 tracts, comprising 10,630 

 acres, were aj^proved for jjurchasc, the average price 

 being $3.87 an acre. Of this land 8,705 acres are in 

 Rockbridge County, 1,190 acres in .Xmherst County, 214 

 acres in Highland County and 521 acres in Augusta 

 Cotmtv. 



In North Carolina. 4.416 acres in 17 tracts were ap- 

 proved for purchase. These are in Buncombe, Burke, 

 Alacon, McDowell and Caldwell counties, at the average 

 price of $8.73 per acre. The largest tract, that in Burke 

 County, comprises 1,800 acres. 



In Georgia, 52,828 acres were approved for purchase 

 at an average price of $6.60 an acre. This land lies in 

 Habersham, Fannin, Union and Rabun counties, the 

 largest tract being 4,833 acres in Union County, All of 

 the authorized purchases are so situated as to fit in with 

 other tracts already acquired or being acquired, the ])ur- 

 pose being to make the publicly owned areas continuous 

 tracts with as few ])rivate!y owned intervening tracts as 

 possible. 



In Tennc-ssiT in the CluTdkce area. 2,150 acres were 

 ap])roved fur purchase in Mi>nroe Cuuntw at ;i jirice of 

 $3 an acre. 



In the Alal>am;i area there were apiiroved fur purchase 

 in Lawrence and Winston Counties, 5,950 acres, liie 

 average jirice an acre being $5.04. 



The a])])rovals for jiurchase of land in .\rkansas were 

 made with a view tn further "solidihcatiDn" in the 

 Arkan.sas and Ozark forests — that is, the acquiring of 

 scattered alienated lands in the midst of tracts ])reviously 

 acquired. The total amounts to 9,323 acres at an average 

 l>rice of $3.98 an acre. The tracts are locate<l in Stone, 

 Newton, Pope, Montgomery, Scott, Yell, Perry, Polk and 

 Logan Counties, the largest tracts consisting of 920 acres 

 in I'errv County and 800 acres in Stone County of cut- 

 over land. 



PLANT MEMORIAL TREES FOR OUR HEROIC DEAD 



