Forest in the Southern Appalachians. Dogwood in Flower 



crop during the same period has been 



450.1 UK 1,000 bushels, with a farm value 

 of S^_'5,OOO,OOO, or less than three- 

 fourths f the value of its forest 

 1 M- 'ducts. Great labor, much time and 

 mone\ have been spent to produce these 

 crop- iif cotton and of corn, which have 

 averaged less than two-fifths of a bale 

 4 



of cotton per acre, and less than seven- 

 teen bushels of corn per acre. Nothing- 

 has been done by man to produce the 

 immense crop of forest products which 

 he has harvested. Nature has sown 

 and grown, he has only reaped, and 

 generally without regard to the future 

 of the forest. 



