Bui. 1061, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VII. 



Fig. 1. — The owner values this old field longleaf pine highly. The trees are mostly 20 to 25 years 

 old, and from 30 to 50 feet in height and 8 to 10 inches in diameter breasthigh— a very rapid growth. 

 It is close to his house and furnishes the farm with poles, fuelwood, and recently small saw tim- 

 ber. Twice a year the pine straw is raked off and in part used for fertilizer on the cotton fields 

 and partly sold in turn for stable bedding, as is extensively done in many parts of the South. 

 A section of one is shown in Figure 2. The stand is very irregular and contains only about one- 

 half the full number of trees. (Florence County, S. C.) 



Bio. 2, action oi repre entatlve tree In old field longleal tand 

 shown in ii:' i. Twentj to twenty-four year old tree are B0 

 feel tall and" to lOlnche In diameter a( breastheight. The ec 

 Hon, cut al breai thelghl . how 16 annual rings. The effect upon 



m Mi of ;i bad AretTyeai ago •■■ 111 be observed In the ninth ni 

 counting from the out ide. (Florence County, S. C.) 



