14 MISC. PUBLICATION 87, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
At the time the photograph, shown as Figure 8, was taken the 
stand was 70 years old and scaled 30,000 board feet per acre. Al- 
most any day local buyers would have given the owner $75 per acre 
for the turpentine rights and $225 for the timber, or a total of $300 
per acre. The stand had grown an average of 400 board feet per 
acre yearly during the 70-year period of its life, and the trees had 
made an average yearly increase in value of about $4.25 per acre. 
CROPPING FARM TIMBER IN TEXAS 
An example of the possibilities of timber as a crop is the case of 
C. C. Crews, who owns a 2,200 acre farm in Gregg County, Tex. Of 
this farm 1,424 acres is in timber, chiefly pine. After purchasing 
this place, Doctor Crews had the timber estimated and then sold all 
marketable timber over 10 inches in diameter. The income from 
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FIGURE 9.—Planted slash pine, row 4 years old and 7 to 9 feet high, on land of 
James Fowler, of Soperton, Ga. 
this timber sale was sufficient to pay the purchase price of the entire 
farm, with a balance which, invested at 7 per cent, returns sufficient 
interest to meet all taxes on the farm. A good stand of thrifty 
young timber remains that can be cut over again in 10 years with 
improvement to the stand and the promise of a good profit. 
A PIONEER TIMBER FARMER 
Because James Fowler, farm owner of Soperton, Treutlen County, 
in southeast Georgia, was spending time and money planting pine 
trees around his farm and protecting his woods from fire, his neigh- 
bors a few years ago thought he was a fit candidate for the “ bug- 
house.” To-day they are asking his advice. 
Mr. Fowler has demonstrated the value of a well-managed and 
well-protected farm woodland. By putting his low-grade land to 
work growing timber, he converted his farm from a losing proposi- 
tion to a paying one. As a result, he has become one of the most 
enthusiastic advocates of forestry in his section of Georgia. 
