2 MISC. PUBLICATION 87, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
extension foresters, including W. K. Williams, formerly of Arkan- 
sas and now with the Extension Service of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture, and R. W. Graeber, of North Carolina. 
For their assistance due acknowledgment is hereby gratefully 
extended. 
For further information regarding the examples which follow, 
address your request to the extension foresters at the colleges of 
agriculture or to the local agricultural county agents of the re- 
spective States or counties. Requests for information on any phase 
of reforestation or growing timber as a farm crop should be sent 
to the same agencies, your State forestry department, or the Forest 
Service, United States Department of Agriculture. 
KINDS OF PINES 
The following stories have mainly to do with pine timber. The 
shortleaf pine is the upland or hill shortleaf yellow pine growing 
in largest abundance in the piedmont and lower mountain slopes. 
The loblolly pine is the common old-field pine of the coastal plain 
and lower piedmont region; the tree and the lumber from it are often 
called “shortleaf.” The slash pine is the “ yellow slash,” found 
only in the lower coastal plain, which yields large amounts of high- 
grade resin or gum, ‘The longleaf pine is well known. 
FARMER THINS PINES AT A PROFIT 
Reading in the newspaper about farmers making money by thin- 
ning their pines, G. M. Hatley of Hudson, Caldwell County, N. C., 
decided to try it out for himself. The record which Mr. Hatley 
kept of his operation will prove of interest to other farmers, some 
of whom are even better situated to remove their “ waste” wood and 
market it than was he. Mr. Hatley tells his story thus: 
During the winter months I have a lot of idle time that I would like to use 
at a reasonable wage. I decided that if by thinning my timber I could make $2 
a day for my own labor and part of the time an additional $1 per day for my 
team it would be better than being idle or going rabbit hunting every day. 
For my first cutting I selected 1 acre of rather dense, second-growth shortleaf 
pine about 28 years old. The pines had reclaimed an old eroded field, stopped 
the gullies, and were too crowded in many places to make a good growth. 
Before begining to cut I selected 320 of the thriftiest, straightest and best- 
formed trees and marked them with whitewash to be left standing as seed 
trees for reseeding the land. All the remaining trees I cut as poles and 
hauled to the house. I then hired these poles sawed into stove-wood blocks, 
but split them myself. The result was 8 cords of stove wood, which I sold 
in town for $7.50 per cord, or $60 for the product cut in improving the stand 
on 1 acre. 
What did I make out of the job? I allowed myself 75 cents a cord for cutting 
in the woods and 50 cents a cord for hauling to the house. The only hired 
labor was for splitting the blocks which cost me $1 a cord or a total of $8. 
My own labor for splitting was credited at the same price of $1 per cord and 
for hauling to market $2 a cord. Thus I got $4.25 a cord for my labor, or $54. 
But what surprised me most was the $2.25 per cord stumpage or value of the 
standing trees, amounting to $18 an acre—enough to pay taxes and interest 
on the land for several years. My money return on the acre thus amounted to 
$52. In the future I intend to cut all my wood supply on this basis and 
market wood as a means of increasing my farm income during the winter 
months, 
