THE BILTMORE FOREST FAIR 27 



Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 



TJ M«k Oil ^® ^'■^ traversing several compartments 

 I IP NO. iSr ^'"^"^ aSa^^ the Cherokee road. These 

 ' compartments have furnished the follow- 



ing returns, by way of improvement cuttings: 



COMPARTMENT ACREAGE YIELD IN 



NO. IN ACRES CORDS 



39 37 190 



41 42 701 



45 33 282 



The present plan of action is: Hands off! 



In 1920, or thereabouts, we can begin to treat these com- 

 partments methodically as "coppice under standards." In the 

 meanwhile, the fertility of the soil which was badly checked by 

 fires in the past, will have had a chance to return. 



■p" k| OC Here you will be given a chance to plant, 



I in NQ ^n ^'^'^ y"**"^ "^'^ aristocratic and bejewelled 

 " * hands, a White Pine seedling! You will 



see the boys doing the stunt, too, at the rate of 1,200 plants per 

 man and day. Learning from us how to plant, you can begin 

 to teach others at home. 



We are planting White Pines, four seasons old, transplanted 

 in Spring 1906. The stock is fine; the roots are many-fibrous; 

 the buds are six to ten in a bunch. 



We are reforesting a field which nature is slow to reforest, 

 for reasons to be explained on the spot. 



Since the faxes are 15 cents per acre, it is well worth while 

 to raise something on this barren land which wiU, in time, defray 

 the taxes. 



For every two acres reforested, we may increase the annual 

 cut by one cord, without depleting the principal investment 

 of wood. 



There is no truth but one: "There Is none.*' 



