PINE INVENTORY 



perfect agreement as tp the best system of care. It is 

 admittedly true, however, that any kind of forestry 

 practice means quicker growth in the long run and 

 quite promptly an appreciable year-to-year income. 

 Pine-tree cropping in the South very quickly comes to 

 yield an annual harvest. 



The pines deliver three different cash crops, and a 

 turpentine farmer, a paper-mill superintendent, or a 

 lumber dealer will each tell you his own very definite 

 ideas. Each interest is distinct, sometimes conflicting, 

 but fortunately never incompatible. Oil and water can 

 be mixed by means of an emulsifying agent, and in this 

 case the best interests of the woodland itself, which is 

 also the best interests of the owners of most of these 

 acres, is not to produce any one of these specialized 

 crops, but all three. 



Pines growing on the land of a paper-making com- 

 pany that was thoroughly shortsighted, might never be 

 allowed to grow beyond the eight- to ten-inch diameter 

 which is the ideal size for pulping. Nevertheless, wise 

 administration of that woodland would leave seed trees 

 amid even the most conscientious cutting for pulp pur- 

 poses. In fifteen or twenty years, these seed trees would 

 be ready for lumber. 



The "cat-faces'* of the turpentine farmer are popular 

 neither in the pulp mill nor the sawmill. If the turpen- 

 tine chipper cuts so that he kills the tree or weakens the 

 stem so that it snaps in the next hurricane, then he be- 



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