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is plenty of cheap land which is not suitable for 

 farming, while the rainfall is abundant and fav- 

 ors rapid tree growth. Furthermore, there are 

 many large cities which use enormous supplies 

 of lumber. The transportation facilities, both 

 rail and water, are excellent. This section is a 

 long distance from the last of the virgin forests 

 of the Pacific Coast country. 



The farms that reported at the last census sold 

 an average of about $82 worth of tree crop 

 products a year. New York, North Carolina, 

 Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Ken- 

 tucky, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania each sold 

 over $15,000,000 worth of lumber and other for- 

 est products from their farm woodlots during a 

 single season. In 1918 the report showed that the 

 farms of the country burn up about 78,000,000 

 cords of firewood annually, equal to approxi- 

 mately 11.5 cords of fuel a farm. The Southern 

 States burn more wood than the colder Northern 

 States. In North Carolina each farm consumes 

 eighteen cords of fuel annually, while the farms 

 of South Carolina and Arkansas used seventeen 

 cords apiece, and those of Mississippi, Georgia, 

 Tennessee, Louisiana, and Kentucky from fifteen 

 to sixteen cords. Even under these conditions of 



