4 Miscellaneous Circular 75, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



guarding the next crop, and providing reasonable opportunity of 

 profitable business for the purchaser. 



THE CROPS OF FAR-FLUNG TIMBER FARMS 



Of the eight national forest districts, this — the seventh or eastern 

 district — is unique in several respects. Though its area of national 

 forest land is the smallest, its boundaries embrace the largest ter- 

 ritory of all. Within its boundaries and tributary to its national 

 forests are more than 80,000,000 people, or about three-fourths of 

 the population of the United States. Within its boundaries is also 

 the center of wood consumption of the country. It stretches from 

 the Canadian boundary to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the At- 









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 Cherokee National Forest, Tenn. 



lantic Ocean to Oklahoma, with Porto Rico thrown in for good 

 measure. The commercial forests in this expansive district range 

 from the dark spruce stands of Maine through the great oak, chest- 

 nut, and yellow popular forests of the Appalachians to the pine 

 woods of Florida and Arkansas. 



The national forests of the West were created from the public 

 domain, but of the 4,000,000 acres of national forest land in the 

 eastern district some 2,500,000 acres have been purchased by the 

 Government from private owners. Naturally this land was not 

 acquired in its virgin state, except for relatively small areas con- 

 sidered for the most part inaccessible in the heyday of logging in 

 this region. Even the pine stands on the public lands from which 



