﻿FOREST MANAGEMENT OF LOBLOLLY PINE. 27 



ment of 85 for the land. If the land costs $10 there would be 8.04 

 per cent compound interest realized on the initial investment. These 

 represent the most favorable conditions. Under similar conditions 

 on Quality III land (see Table 24), on the other hand, in 30 years 

 there will be a compound interest of only 6.22 per cent on $5 land 

 and of 4.07 per cent on $10 land; while at 8 miles from the railroad 

 under similar conditions the compound interest rate possible to 

 realize would be 4.46 and 2.53 per cent, respectively, on $5 and $10 

 land. 



Loblolly pine occurs almost entirely on land that is potentially 

 agricultural. This includes large areas of poorly drained land which 

 at considerable expense can be converted into good agricultural sites, 

 and land formerly under cultivation but worn out and abandoned. 

 For several generations it will probably pay best to continue to grow 

 crops of timber, at comparatively little expense, on large areas of 

 this land, >nd to practice intensive agriculture, requiring large out- 

 lays of money, on limited areas best adapted to crops. A properly 

 managed woodlot will always be a necessity to the well-equipped 

 farm, even if the only land available for this purpose is potentially 

 agricultural. 



In the management of forest types in which loblolly pine occurs it is 

 generally advisable to favor it in the reproduction of a new stand to 

 the exclusion of most of the species associated with it. It is preferable 

 to other pines (shortleaf, pitch, and scrub) because its growth is 

 more rapid, it produces cleaner timber and more seed, and on moist 

 to wet soils, or on light dry soils with an open seed bed, it reproduces 

 better. It is preferable to reproduce to pine rather than to hard- 

 woods, with the exception of yellow poplar, because pine will reach 

 maturity and command a good stumpage price at an earlier age, 

 especially on the poorer soils. On heavy and dry upland soils, 

 where loblolly is comparatively scarce, it is best to favor shortleaf 

 pine, as it is better adapted than loblolly to such sites. By using the 

 method for securing loblolly pine reproduction described in this bulletin 

 it will be possible to secure pure stands of the species, or at least 

 make it the preponderating species in a future stand. A limited 

 admixture of other species of pine and hardwoods of the same age 

 will never handicap the rapid-growing loblolly, and it will not usually 

 be advisable to go to any considerable expense in order to exclude 

 them entirely. 



NORMAL STANDS AND ROTATION. 



In forest management of loblolly pine the aim should be to secure 

 (preferably by natural reproduction, which is less expensive) pure, 

 fully-stocked (uniformly dense), and even-aged stands of the species. 

 These are technically known as normal stands, and produce the 



