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indefinite meaning of the terms in which we speak. I hope you 

 will go ahead and keep this work up until this problem of gaining 

 adequate information regarding the cut-over pine lands is 

 solved. 



Mississippi's Part in Cut-Over 

 Land Development 



By Dr. E. R. Lloyd 



Director of Experiment Stations of the State of 

 Mississippi 



I have been somewhat amused at the apparent incompatibility 

 between Dr. Piper's ideas of the cut-over land and the ideas of the 

 other gentlemen. It seems to me that Dr. Piper was talking about 

 one type of cut-over land and the other gentlemen were talking 

 about another type, and both correct from their different points of 

 view. 



We have a vast deal of cut-over land in Mississippi which is 

 really splendid agricultural land. We also have a great deal of 

 cut-over land in Mississippi which is hardly worth while as agri- 

 cultural land, and Dr. Piper was entirely correct when he said that 

 on this poorer type of soil we cannot gTow very much of a crop 

 and to make a good pasture will be both difficult and expensive. 

 While on the better type, which has a good red-clay subsoil, we 

 can grew many profitable field crops besides lespedeza and Ber- 

 muda for pasture. 



In developing this cut-over territory it seems to me, Mr. Chair- 

 man, that the first thing to be done, so far as Mississippi is con- 

 cerned, is to repeal some legislation we already have. These lands 

 will never be developed through individual effort ; they will be 

 . developed by corporations with money ; but so long as we have such 

 lationRetards ^^^® °" °^^ statute books as we have today, these cut-over lands 

 Development ^^^ "o* going to be developed very rapidly. And it seems to me 

 with an organization made up of some of the best business men of 

 the country something might be done if the proper effort was made 

 to repeal the vicious laws which now retard progress in the state's 

 development. We desire to see these lands developed on a per- 



