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it to develop. Twenty-six years later, in January, 1927, needing 
money to tide him over a hard year, he harvested and sold his crop 
for $714. : 
He found that he could sell the larger trees for crossties and use 
the tops of these same trees, along with the smaller and immature 
trees, as pulpwood. However, he left some of the trees, in the true 
spirit of reforestation, to make seed for a later crop. When he had — 
finished cutting he found that he had 480 ties, which he sold for 30 
cents each, netting $129. He also sold 130 cords of pulpwood for — 
$4.50 per cord, or $585. The ties and pulpwood together brought 
Mr. Brumfield $714, delivered at the station. The farmer did his 
own cutting and hauling at odd times. Counting the income from 
the labor as $385 leaves the value of the timber on the stump as 
$329, a fair value, and the average money returns from growing 
timber during the 26-year period as $73.11 per acre. 
The State extension forester said: 
Almost any farmer can do as well if he will take care that his young pines 
are growing closely enough to produce good, straight growth. The 414-acre 
stand of timber was no exception, and in fact the trees were rather scattered 
in places. But let no one try to duplicate these profits who allows his young 
timber to burn over annually. 
SELECTIVE CUTTING PROFITABLE 
F. A. White, a farmer living near Lewisville, Winston County, 
in east-central Mississippi, has handled his pine woodland intelli- 
gently and made repeated cuttings, at intervals of about eight years, 
with good money returns. 
Good grade of pine logs were worth $12 a thousand feet delivered 
on the “dummy” logging railroad. He marked his mature and 
overcrowded trees for cutting. Then he hired a reliable man to 
cut and deliver the logs to the railroad for $5 per thousand feet. 
This gave him a stumpage, or money return on his standing timber, 
of $7 per thousand. The prevailing price in the region for “ run- 
of-the-woods ” stumpage was $3 to $3.50 per thousand feet, and this 
was all he would have received if he had sold his timber as many of 
his neighbors were selling theirs. 
When Mr. White’s job was finished, although he had cut 100,000 - 
board feet of logs from 60 acres, a passer-by would scarcely have 
noticed any marked change in the appearance of the woods. The 
smaller and thriftier growing trees had been left. In the ordinary 
method of sale these trees would practically have been given to the 
buyer. Mr. White’s woods were left in good shape in another way, 
as he worked up the tree tops into firewood. 
On the adjoining tract, the farm owner sold his timber by the 
“lot” or “boundary ” without restriction, and the land was skinned 
so that there was no hope of another cut for several decades. 
CAN NOT MAKE LIVING WITHOUT WOODLAND 
From his pine-woodland tract of 12 acres a farmer of Grant 
County, Ark., during the past 13 years, has cut timber products for 
home use and for sale amounting in value to $1,152. In his cutting 
operations care was taken to save all the young trees from injury. 
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