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to twenty tons of ensilage per acre. This year we have a 

 hundred acres in peanuts; we have forty acres in sweet pota- 

 toes ; and we have about 300 acres in sorghum, and we propose 

 to build twenty-five silos this year. We figure a ton of ensilage 

 will carry the cattle you have to feed — will carry one head 

 through the winter — and puts them on the grass in the spring 

 in fine condition, so that they start right off to growing. We 

 have the only dipping vat in the two counties we are located in. 



The question, "What part is the lumberman to play in the 

 upbuilding of the Southland through the proper development 

 and use of the vast areas of cut-over lands that are as yet 

 largely unused?" is one that every timber and timber land owner 

 has a right to be interested in, and is, I trust. 



The lumber industry of the South came to life after the 

 Civil War. Previous to that great war the South was given 

 over almost entirely to the production of cotton. It was a land 

 about equally divided between aristocrats and poor whites, with gar/i; Dans of 

 the negroes for the laboring class. In those days the lumber Lumbering in 

 production of the country came from the North, but as the price the South 

 of stumpage and the value of lumber advanced in the Northern 

 territories, the lumber folks naturally began to seek other and 

 newer forests and the South came in for a large share of their 

 attention. 



Then began the development of the forests of the South. 



What this development has amounted to, and what the lumber 



industry means to the South today, is a matter of fact with 



which we are all familiar. He is the largest employer of the 



South — a great community builder — and a leading spirit in his r 7 



1 IV ^u 1 1, • .-11 • XT . Lumberman 



locality, ihe lumberman is essentially a pioneer. He seeks Blazes the 



new forests when his old ones have been cut away, and he builds Way for 



up and develops the territory in which he chooses to locate. Be- Civilization 



hind the lumberman come farms, schools, villages and eventually 



cities. Whenever you find him, you find a constructive worker, 



and a natural builder. 



As an individual, the lumberman stands high among the 

 industrial people of the land. As a citizen he is known always 

 for his activity, his progress and his generosity. 



As an industry, there is much for the lumber folks to do — a 

 world of needful work that must be done — and a great field of 

 undeveloped opportunity that stretches out before him in every 

 direction. The opportunities that present themselves to the 



