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at the rate of 5 pounds per acre. On the basis of these experiments, 

 satisfactory stands of slash pine may be expected from, broadcasting 

 on grass without further treatment at the rate of 1 to 2 pounds per 

 acre in the fall and 2 to 3 pounds in the spring. Operations on soil 

 prepared by plowing and harrowing gave the best stands, with 43,442 

 seedlings per acre, from 1 to 3 feet high, resulting from the fall sowing, 

 and 11,435 seedlings per acre from the spring sowing. Obviously this 

 method is too expensive to be practiced on a large scale. Seed-spot 

 sowing gave results varying from 7 to 72 per cent of the spots with 

 seedlings at the end of the second season. Here fall sowing averaged 

 again noticeably better than those made in the spring. The results 

 are of interest because of their favorable character and the possibility 

 of applying them on millions of acres of practically idle cut-over lands 

 in the South Atlantic and Gulf States. The species grows- rapidly and 

 at an early age produces good financial returns in turpentine and 

 timber. This tree of high commercial value occurs extensively, where 

 fires have been excluded or limited in occurrence, on the poorly drained 

 flat lands of the coastal plain from South Carolina west to the Missis- 

 sippi River. 



