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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



November 



lands, comprise about 7,100 acres, all 

 but 640 acres of which are virgin hard- 

 wood forests of typical Southern Ap- 

 palachian character, in which chest- 

 nut, chestnut oak, yellow poplar, white 

 oak, and basswood are the leading 

 trees. Black walnut is also present in 

 some quantities. The study of the 

 tract has occupied five men for about 

 three months. The owners, whose first 

 object is the development of the coal 

 mines, desire to manage their forest 

 capital so as to make it also yield in- 

 terest, and the working plan which 

 they have requested has in view the 

 production of mine props construc- 

 tion timber for the mining plant, and 

 its upkeep, and material for cars and 

 other similar needs of the mines. 



A feature of the working plan is 

 the provision for reforesting the 640 

 acres already cleared. Trees will be 

 planted, so that the highest produc- 

 tiveness of the land may be assured 

 for the future. Twenty acres of black 

 walnut are being planted this fall, and 

 each year a given area will be planted 

 to black walnut, hickory, chestnut, and 

 chestnut oak. 



tract consists of 30,000 acres of long- 

 leaf and loblolly pine, which it is de- 

 sired to manage with all the thorough- 

 ness and care which have borne such 

 good fruits in the management of the 

 former tract. A mill-scale study will 

 also be made, at the company's request, 

 with a view of fixing the diameter at 

 which trees yield the best paying 

 grades of lumber at the mill. 



The advisability of fixing the diam- 

 eter limit of trees to be cut relatively 

 higher, so as to allow for the better 

 quality and consequent greater profit 

 in the mill product, is one which is 

 receiving more attention from lumber- 

 men and foresters than ever before. 



The E. P. Burton Company employs 

 two foresters, Mr. C. S. Chapman and 

 Mr. Max Rothkuegel, who have in 

 charge the proper execution of the 

 working plans. 



WORKING PLAN FOR SOUTHERN 

 TIMBER 



The E. P. Burton Lumber Com- 

 pany, of Charleston, South Carolina, 

 for which the Forest Service prepared 

 a working plan some two years ago, 

 has asked the Service to prepare a 

 new plan of the same character for 

 the management of 30,000 acres in 

 Berkeley county. 



As soon as the first plan had been 

 in force long enough to be tested, the 

 company declared itself heartily in fa- 

 vor of its recommendations, and set 

 aside the sum of $3,000 per annum to 

 carry them out in the fullest degree. 

 The experience of two years has, fur- 

 ther, so far confirmed it in this course 

 that the second plan is now called for. 



On November i six men, assigned 

 by the Forest Service to make a de- 

 tailed study of the tract, will go to 

 South Carolina for this purpose. This 



FOREST PRODUCT STATISTICS 



Every prospect seems to favor the 

 success of the study which the For- 

 est Service is making of statistics of 

 forest products in the United States. 

 The hearty co-operation of the Na- 

 tional Lumber Manufacturers' Asso- 

 ciation, which is collaborating with the 

 Service, .will be a strong factor, since 

 the members of this association pro- 

 duce about one-third of all the lumber 

 manufactured in the United States. 

 Agents of the Forest Service in the 

 west and in New York and New Eng- 

 land have conferred with lumbermen 

 and with the officers of manufacturers' 

 associations, and have everywhere 

 been met with interested aid. 



The object of this study is one 

 which strongly appeals to all those 

 whose business depends upon wood as 

 raw material. The census returns every 

 ten years, and more recently the fig- 

 ures which Congress has authorized 

 to be gathered every five years, are 

 still felt to be too infrequent to satisfy 

 the need of current knowledge of de- 

 mand and supply in the lumber mar- 

 ket. The effort toward economy in 

 cut and in manufacture, which the re- 

 duction of supply and the rise in 





