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varies from $3 to $5 a thousand feet. The manufactured 

 product sells for $12 per 1,000 and up, loaded on the barges. 

 There is more or less waste of wood in the lops and 

 tops in all cottonwood operations, which might be very 

 profitably utilized if there was a market for pulpwood near 

 by. Above Memphis, pulpwood sells for $4.50 or more 

 a cord. A plant for the manufacture of paper pulp, if 

 erected at some point on the river between New Orleans 

 and Memphis, would certianly have a large supply of raw 

 material to draw from. A good market would thus be 

 created for valuable material that is now wasted. 



Many of the small holders of timber-land do not yet 

 realize the value of stumpage, treating it as an asset like 

 coal or iron, which, after it is once used up, is gone forever. 

 Instead, it should be regarded as a crop and harvested in 

 such a way that another crop would be assured. In selling 

 standing timber, unless the intention is to clear up the 

 land at once for crops, there should be some provision for 

 the care of the young growth of the valuable species. It is 

 a mistake to assume that timber cannot be sold unless the 

 buyer is allowed to cut clean if he so desires. There is 

 very little money in sawing small poles below say 10 or 

 12 inches, and so they are not usually cut where sold by 

 the thousand board feet. Where, however, timber is 

 bought by the acre, no stumpage charge is reckoned, and 

 every tree is cut which will yield a profit over the cost of 

 manufacturing alone. Cutting restrictions, pro\dding for 

 leaving the young growth, have been insisted on in several 

 sales of timber in this region, and there is no reason why 

 this should not be done in every sale. 



Turpentining. — Turpentining should go hand in hand 

 with lumbering longleaf pine. The forest should be so 

 managed that trees may be boxed for several years ahead 

 of the logging. Many companies have never turpentined 

 their pine, because they were not sure how soon it woiild be 

 logged. If lumbering follows the turpentining too quickly, 

 the cost of erecting a still and boxing the trees is greater 

 than the returns warrant. On the other hand, when log- 

 ging does not follow the turpentining, the boxed trees are 



