Urania, Louisiana, seemed to show very clearly that 

 regulated grazing and very much restricted use of fire 

 is necessary to secure natural regeneration. Hogs 

 have a special fondness for the thick, succulent root 

 cover of the young long-leaf pine, and where these 

 animals range freely in the woods one seldom finds 

 the long-leaf pine coming in. 



A change in. farming methods w r ill do much to 

 remedy conditions, adverse to natural regeneration. 

 The raising of corn in far greater quantities and bet- 

 ter bred stock will eventually eliminate free grazing 

 as a factor influencing forest production. 



The Congress passed resolutions calling on the 

 Southern States to enact legislation to require or 

 make possible forest replacement by owners of tim- 

 ber lands, to provide for taxing timber when cut and 

 reimbursing the counties for deferred revenues, to 

 organize strong, non-political forestry departments, 

 an dto purchase and maintain state forests. 



The work of the National Research Council in For- 

 estry was endorsed and the support of the Congress 

 pledged. The legislature of Mississippi was urged 

 to enact the bill to provide for a state forestry board 

 and state forester. 



Three other resolutions urged the Federal Con- 

 gress : to continue its policy of providing money to 

 purchase forest lands under the Weeks Law ; to 

 appropriate $200,000.00 for co-operating with states 

 in fire protection; and to establish forest experiment 

 stations in the Southern pineries and the Southei 

 Appalachians. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. Henry E. Hardtni 



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