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developed. With the trees coming in too thick, it was necessary for 
him to thin them, and it is this work of thinning young trees which 
is making him a nice profit to-day. Recently, Mr. Nabholz thinned 
out 10 acres from which he got 42 cords of wood in all, or 10 cords 
for home use, 15 cords for the local cotton gin, and 17 cords for the 
town bakery. 
In cutting his hardwoods, only an amount equal to the yearly 
growth on his whole woodland is being taken out by the owner. In 
other words, his cutting 
program provides for a 
perpetual supply of wood. 
‘In six years, he stated, 
he will be caught up with 
his thinning operations, 
and then for several years 
only firewood for home 
use will be taken out. If 
the time ever’ comes when 
his wood is not needed for 
fuel, he believes that it will 
not affect his timber-grow- 
ing program as he will 
then harvest his trees for 
crossties. for which there is 
a good market. 
Mr. Nabholz’s nine chil- 
dren are learning the prin- 
ciples of forestry as he 
learned them in the “old 
country.” They are all en- 
thusiastic and realize its 
value. His timber is in- 
creasing the sale value of 
his farm. Besides this, the 
leaves are raked up and 
used for bedding stock to 
increase the stable manure. 
As the forest tract hes west 
of the farmstead it affords 
Ficyns 2—Thrifty, straight, young timber left shelter for the home and 
of Robert P. White, Clarke County, Ga. The for livestock from the cold 
t und ugly trees are being ked int : : 
pops ugly trees a ei worked into winds of winter. 
A FARMER’S TIMBER PROPHECY COMES TRUE 
Said Robert P. White, a substantial farmer of the red clay hills 
in the piedmont region of Clarke County, in upper Georgia: 
There has been little profit in cotton farming since 1920. Our timber 
has kept my brother, sister, and myself from bankruptcy. Dad used to 
say to us many times that if we’d take care of the timber and keep fires 
out it would be the best paying part of the farm. A neighbor who was 
struggling along growing cotton on hillside land was advised by my father 
many years ago to give it up and let the land grow timber. My father was 
right as the last decade has fully shown. 
The boll weevil came in 1921 and became worse in 1922 and 1923. Then the 
very dry season and crop failures of 1924 and 1925 put us back where we had 
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