PINE INVENTORY 



hazard. In this work the big companies are doing their 

 full share. Among the paper mills it is virtually standard 

 practice to acquire more and more land and to practice 

 scrupulous forestry. Even the lumber companies, who 

 of necessity must look ahead more years for profitable 

 returns and who have greater temptations to cut clean, 

 are increasingly interested in the perpetual inventory 

 idea. Among outstanding examples of this long-haul 

 point of view are the Crossett interests in Arkansas, 

 Crosby in Louisiana, Sullivan and Putnam in Florida, 

 Smith in Alabama, all held up as shining examples of 

 good practice. Rural schools and agricultural county 

 agents are preaching the gospel. Alabama has recently 

 proposed the most progressive measure of all: a state 

 severance tax on turpentine, pulpwood, and lumber 

 all the pine forest products estimated to yield a million 

 dollars a year, and to be spent in fire prevention. 



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