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lumber, the only tree which replaces it was this sand 

 black jack oak. 



These waste tracts, either naked or covered with the 

 sand black jack oak, lie south of the Neuse river and are 

 to be found in every county from New Hanover west- 

 ward to Richmond and Moore. It was with a view to 

 ascertain the feasibilit}^ of restocking- these lands with a 

 valuable tree and pre vent i no- the enlar«-ement of these 

 waste acres that this examination was made of the 

 habits, characteristics and relative adaptability to ex- 

 isting* conditions, both natural and artificial, of these 

 two pines, Piiins lacda and P. paliisirls. 



THE CAUSE OE THESE WASTE EANDS. 



From the preceding- it appears that there is a larg-e 

 amount of waste land lyin^- in the southeastern part of 

 this State. There are now over 400,000 acres of such 

 land, and the amount of it, from various causes, is con- 

 stantly increasing-. This land consists of hig-h rolling- 

 or hill 3' sand barrens, fcjrmerly covered with extensive 

 forests of long leaf pine. These forests yielded tur- 

 pentine abundantly, but on account of the larg-er 

 amount of sapwood and the coarser g-rain of the wood 

 of trees growing on these ])oorer sandy lands the lum- 

 ber, though of good (juality, was of a g'rade inferior to 

 that from trees grown on fertile soils. Now, however, 

 owing' to the g'rossest neglect, larg'e portions of these 

 forests have either l)een destroyed entirely or reduced 

 to such a condition that there is neither mill nor tur- 

 pentine timber on them, and no reg-rowth of the long- 

 leaf pine has been allowed to take the place of the old- 

 er trees as the latter were being gradually extermin- 

 ated. The soils of the l)arrens on acccmnt of their 



