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



Plate XII. 



Fig. 1. — Plenty of seed trees were left —the trees left were considered as culls when lumbered 

 (1902), but unfortunately no protection against annual fires and hogs has been afforded. The 

 result, after 15 years, is the absence of a young forest and the loss of considerable old timber by 

 action of fire, insects, diseases, and wind. This condition apparently has misled many people to 

 believe that longleaf land would never come back to timber. 



Fig. 2. — Seed trees and protection on longleaf cut-over lands near-by that shown in Figure 

 1. The young forest of mixed longleaf and shirtleaf pines is growing well and producing from 1 

 to 2 cords yearly of wood suitable for pulpwood or 300 to 500 board feet of saw timber. The seed 

 trees have been making profitable growth as shown on page 11. More trees were left than neces- 

 sary for seed, but all were considered culls when logged. 



SEED TREES AND PROTECTION— THE ESSENTIALS FOR KEEP- 

 ING THE FOREST PRODUCTIVE. 



