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tremendous acreage, in order to eat the sweet root. They 

 will not harm short-leaf seedlings, because they do not 

 like its roots. 



The company has carefully fenced in against the hogs 

 nearly five thousand acres of land, upon most of which 

 the 1920 seed-fall is growing, this being the first large 

 scale work of the kind ever 

 attempted in this country. 

 Fencing is an expensive op- 

 eration, but the company 

 has been willing to experi- 

 ment along this line because 

 of its faith in the potential 

 value of the investment. 



In spite of these protect- 

 ive measures it is realized 

 that no new development 

 can successfully take place 

 until a large majority of the 

 people are educated to ap- 

 preciate its value. The 

 company's department of 

 forestry has made it a prin- 

 cipal part of its work to 

 conduct a thorough and 

 continuous publicity for the 

 education of the local popu- 

 lation to the importance and 



value of a permanent timber supply. This has been car- 

 ried on in an excellent common sense way not only 

 through the local papers, posted signs and special ap- 

 peals, but through interesting exhibits of forest products 

 at the country fairs. According to present plans the 

 company will have a forest values display at every fair 



FOREST ENEMIES 



These hogs feed on the sweet roots of young second growth 

 long-leaf pine and have to be kept off land where re-growth 

 is desired. 



in the State this year. Last year people crowded to these 

 forestry booths to see the exhibits and search for their 

 friends among the photographs of farmers who had al- 

 ready taken steps to plant or conserve the young timber 

 growth on their land. In addition, the company last year 

 advertised widely that it would purchase at $5.00 a cord 



such wood as the farmers 

 wished to cut from their 

 own lands and deliver at 

 the railroad. Although the 

 company could have pro- 

 cured from its own logging 

 and sawmill waste sufficient 

 raw material for its pulp 

 mill, five thousand addi- 

 tional cords were thus pur- 

 chased for the sake of edu 

 eating the people to the 

 value of wood. It is possi- 

 ble that much of the suc- 

 cess which will attend this 

 educational work will be 

 due to the special efforts 

 of the Chief Forester, for 

 he himself was born and 

 bred not far from the pres- 

 ent town and the personal 

 equation is always import- 

 ant in obtaining good will. Where it appears that, due to 

 the interference of man's agency, the cut-over land has 

 not been properly re-seeded, the company has experi- 

 mented with various methods of sowing pine seed. The 

 best way has not yet been determined. On 2,000 acres of 

 land long-leaf pine seed was broadcasted last fall, but 



JKOM THIS WILL GROW XEVV FORESTS 



Bags full of long-leaf yellow pine seed gathered by the Great Southern Lumber Company and being used in replanting cut-over 

 areas where man's devastation has made it impossible for Nature to provide. 



