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out a stock law, and stock of every kind is allowed 

 to range about through the unfenced woods and cut 

 over lands. The Longleaf seedling devotes the first 

 year or so of its life chiefly to growing roots, and 

 the long tap-root with its heavy sugar content is a 

 favorite tit-bit for range hogs. In order to eat the 

 sweet root a few hungry razor-backs will pretty 

 effectually kill the one or two year old Longleaf 

 stand on a tremendous acreage, but they will not 

 harm Shortleaf seedlings. The company has care- 

 fully fenced 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 at- 

 tempted in the country. Fencing is an expensive 

 operation, but the company has been willing to 

 experiment along this line because of its faith in the 

 potential value of the investment. 



In spite of these protective measures it is realized 

 that no new development can successfully take place 

 until a large majority of the people are educated 

 to appreciate its value. The company's department 

 of forestry has made it a principal part of its work 

 .to conduct a thorough and continuous publicity for 

 the education of the local population as to the im- 

 portance and value of a permanent wood supply. 

 This has been carried on in an excellent common 

 sense way — not only through the local papers, 



