FOREST POLICY. 



Leather industry yields, in 1900, a product worth $3,750,000, 

 and uses 1,080 cords of hemlock bark, worth $9,440; 29,840 cords 

 of oak bark, worth $22,400; 13.300 barrels of bark extract, worth 

 $139,000; besides some quebracho, gambier and sumac. 



Paper and pulp industry is insignificant. 



6. Forestry movement: Little; recently stirred up by Fed- 

 eration of Women's Clubs. Berea College gives, through Prof. 

 S. C. Mason, excellent training in conservative forestry to farm 

 boys. Agricultural reports allude to forestry and its importance. 



7. Laws: In a number of counties the firing of woods is 

 forbidden. Constables are required to extinguish fires at expense 

 of county. 



8. Reservations: None. 



9. Irrigation: None. 



FORESTRY CONDITIONS OF LOUISIANA: 



1. Area: 28,300 square miles, or 62% of the total area of 

 the State, are wooded. 



2. Physiography: Undulating land, alluvial soil, river bot- 

 tom lands subject to continuous inundations. Mississippi River 

 forms the eastern line. Red River of the South traverses the 

 State from northwest to southeast. Sabine River is on the Texas 

 line; the Pearl River on the lower Mississippi State line. A mul- 

 titude of water-courses form a help to the utilization of the for- 

 est and to the prevention of fires. 



3. Distribution: After the I2th census, the southwest por- 

 tion is prairie. Long leaf pine in two large bodies, separated 

 by the Red River, aggregating 4,300,000 acres of densest stump- 

 age (4,000 to 6,000 feet and over per acre) often untouched. No 

 Cuban pine. Echinata and Taeda extend from Red River north- 

 ward to State line. The former species frequently shows an un- 

 dergrowth of Spanish oak, black jack, post oak and hickories. 

 Cypress grows in enormous swamps, with red gum and black gum. 

 Along rich bottoms, evergreen magnolias, water oaks, red oaks, 

 gums, cottonwoods, burr oak, white ash, pecan, persimmon, sas- 

 safras and beech. In drier localities, cow oak and burr oak. 



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