Southern States 



Arkansas 81,600,000,000 



Texas 66,000,000,000 



Louisiana 119,800,000,000 



Mississippi 95,500,000,000 



Alabama 56,300,000,000 



Florida 74,700,000,000 



All other states 710,600,000,000 



Europe has 750,112,821 acres; Asiatic Russia, 348,030,000 

 acres; India, 149,000,000; Japan, 57,718,410; the Philippines, 

 49,000,000; Australia, 132,864,992; South America, 528,000,000, 

 and the West Indies, 107,000,000.. 



One of the most novel plants in the world, and practically 

 the only one of its kind in the world is what is known as the 

 cone plant of the forest service of the United States in 

 the Black Hills. The plant was constructed for the purpose 

 of extracting the seeds from pine cones for the use of the 

 forest service in the hills and elsewhere in re-foresting areas 

 on which the natural timber has been destroyed, or in start- 

 ing a growth of timber on new or untimbered lands embraced 

 in the national forests in different parts of the United States. 

 During the fall while the warm weather lasts the cones are 

 opened in the sun by spreading them out on canvas sheets. 

 This is the cheapest method, but as the weather becomes 

 colder, kiln drying is resorted to. The kiln consists of a room 

 with wide swinging doors at each end. An average tempera- 

 ture . of 110 degrees is maintained in the kiln by means of 

 steam. The cones are placed on wire meshed trays, which 

 are piled upon little cars and run into the kiln on steel rails. 

 The kiln holds ten cars and each car holds fifteen bushels of 

 cones, so that 150 bushels are being dried at a time. It 

 requires about 36 hours for the cones to open completely. 

 When fully opened the cones are ready to be threshed. This 

 is done by throwing them into one end of a cylinder, 16 feet 

 long, which is revolved by means of a gasoline engine. This 

 churns and threshes the cone about and jars out the seed. 

 The cylinder slants slightly so that the cones gradually work 

 toward the end and so fall out. Two or three feet from 

 the end, however, the cones pass over one-half inch mesh 

 hardware cloth, which allows the seed to drop through into 



