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



Plate XIX. 



Fig. 1. — The native piney woods hog is one of the worst enemies of longleaf pine. These 2-year-old 

 seedlings were dug out of the ground. In the spring, when the ground is soft and available food 

 scarce, hogs eat the thick, spongy, succulent bark around the taproot and larger laterals, thereby 

 Trilling millions of seedlings annually. The saplings, about 2{ years old, during the course of the 

 meal were pulled completely out of the ground and left in their present condition. Others had 

 lost their tops and on some the roots were skinned and girdled without much damage to the tops. 



- rod in eastern Texas, elected at random, there were found 38 longloal cod 

 recently killed by hog , and 6 living. Thl la a laughter of 8,080 per acre. The tracl In 

 or In [896 (20 peai prioi I and again cu1 for piling 10 yeai later, bul 



hardly a young tree ii i c caped the hog and nrea 



DESTRUCTION BY NATIVE RAZORBACK HOGS. 



