1901 



AMERICAN FORESTRY ASSOCIATION". 



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the supply becomes slim and prices still ample, for the first ten miles east of Mo., 



much higher, further, in the actual log- cow in Polk County 



ging operations there is a kind of waste 3. That even more thousands of acres 



which it seems might be avoided. This are covered with an open stand of perfect 



FIG. 5. FIELD OF LONGLEAF PINE IN HARDIN CO., TEXAS LOGGED-OVER MORE 



THAN FIFTEEN YEARS AGO. TYPICAL OF MANY TRACTS LOGGED-OVER 



IN EARLIER DAYS OF LUMBERING. COMPARE FIG. 6. 



is the destruction of saplings and poles by 

 the felling and removing of the large trees. 

 Sometimes in actual numbers the trees so 

 destroyed outnumber two or three times 

 those actually cut for the mill. These 

 matters, of course, have their bearing upon 

 the. question of forest renewal. 



Looking over the field now at the end 

 of a quarter century of active lumbering, 

 one finds : 



i. That still a vast deal of mature pine 

 no one knows approximately how much 

 is waiting to be harvested. 



2. That many thousands of acres of 

 logged-over land are an unproductive 

 wilderness of tall grasses, widely scattered 

 saplings and blackened trunks; for ex- 



young pine which is rapidly growing into 

 mill timber; for example, between Beau- 

 mont and Olive, and Beaumont and Sils- 

 bee. (Fig. 5.) 



4. That on large tracts logged over 

 twenty and twenty-five years ago, trees 

 that were then too young to find a market 

 have since matured and constitute some 

 very valuable forest land, recent cuts 

 upon such tracts having yielded as high as 

 5,000 feet of timber to the acre. ( Figs. | 



5. That present markets, methods oi 

 preserving sap timber, and regard for the 

 economy of tram building, lead to a much 

 closer cut than Eormerly and consequent^ 

 leave less young or imperfect timber to 

 began forest renewal upon. 



