194 PRACTICAL FORESTRY 
quickly because of the danger of insect and fungus 
injuries incident to warm climates. The logs are 
sawn into lumber as soon as possible, or kept in water 
to prevent checking, and the boards are kiln-dried at 
once to prevent checking and bluing. 
Here the laborer is mostly the negro, who, al- 
though perhaps not as good as the Northern work- 
man, is nevertheless good if managed by men who 
know him well. 
Many claim that forestry is, after all, only an 
improved form of lumbering. It is true, no doubt, 
that in the change from lumbering to forestry there 
will be no revolution, but an evolution. One point, 
however, is certain, that between the lumbering of to- 
day and what may be called forestry, there is a wide 
gap, and this gap consists mainly in the fact that the 
forester protects and fosters the young growth for 
which the lumberman has apparently no regard what- 
ever. 
In the swamp-lands of the South other methods 
of utilization are practised. Railroads have exten- 
sively developed owing to the ease with which they 
ean be constructed, and to the immense amount of 
labor which is saved by their use. In many places 
the logs are hauled or jerked out of the swamps to 
the railroads by steam and wire cables. Where the 
swamps are intersected by waterways, scows with 
