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The greatest production was 4,780 posts per acre, value $412.80 ; average • 

 annual increase in value, $18.76. The lowest was 1,134 posts, value $97.24; 

 average annual increase, $4.86. The ages of these stands were 22 and 20, 

 respectively. 



In southeastern and southern Ohio the topography is more hilly and much 

 waste land is to be found. Planting can be done for commercial production and 

 to hinder erosion on steep hillsides. Southwestern Pennsylvania, southeastern 

 Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee are underlain in part by bituminous 

 coal. In the localities of the coal mining, the demand for mine props is great, and 

 the local supply is diminishing rapidly in eastern Ohio and southwestern Penn- 

 sylvania. Planting of hardwoods, both rapid-growing and longer-lived, together 

 with improved treatment of woodland, is essential to meet future demands. Some 

 expermental planting indicates its commercial value. 



Conditions found in southern Indiana are quite similar to those in the 

 southern counties of Ohio. Woodlot management should be encouraged and 

 planting confined to barren hillsides. The Forestry Department of the Ohio 

 Experiment Station is furnishing planting stock for reforestation. The principal 

 species in the Station nursery are white pine, red pine, Norway spruce, bald 

 cypress, red oak, white ash and tulip poplar. 



KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE 



THE plateaux and mountains of the eastern portion of these two States have 

 extensive forests, and the problem is one of conservative management. All 

 of our principal hardwood species are to be found in the region. To the 

 west is the central higHland region, in which the timber consists of woodlots, 

 wooded slopes and ridges and woodland along streams.* According to R. C. Hall, 

 32 per cent of the area in this portion of Kentucky and Tennessee is wooded, the 

 chief species being oaks, yellow poplar, beech, chestnut, hickory and red gum. He 

 says : "Forest planting may sometimes be profitable in the central highland region, 

 either to start a new stand or to replace one that has been ruined by heavy logging 

 and repeated fires, or perhaps to utilize old fields and washed lands. On all 

 typical old fields, except those with poorly drained or acid soils, white ash, red oak, 

 and yellow poplar will be found the best trees to plant. On rich, fresh, and moist 

 soil hardy catalpa will do well, and will also furnish a very durable wood. On 

 poor, thin soils black locust is the only tree producing durable wood that will 

 thrive." 



The Nashville Basin and the Blue Grass region have 10 to 15 per cent of 

 woodland. No commercial planting is required. 



The Mississippi Valley region of Kentucky and Tennessee contains large 

 bodies of forest, but the soils are mainly agricultural, and forest planting will 

 never have much place in the development of this portion of the two States. 



Other States 



The hardwood region of the Lake States is agricultural in character. Like 

 Ohio, it is a region of woodlots attached to farms. Reproduction is fair and 



♦American Forestry, Vol. XIX, No. 8, pp. 533-543. 



