GROWING PINE TIMBER FOR PROFIT 

 IN THE SOUTH 



Some Examples, Estimates, and Opinions by Lumbermen 



and Others 



Compiled by the Forest Service 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Timber growing in the South. By W. B. Greeley 1 



Forestry demonstration by the Southern Railway. By J. C. Williams 2 



Fire prevention pays. By H. H. Tryon 3 



Timber-Products Co. finds pines profitable. By Alexander K. Sessoms 4 



Timber grows rapidly in Georgia. By C. B. Harman 5 



Good returns in turpentine and timber from slash pine in northern Florida. By 



Harry Lee Baker 5 



Conservative lumbering in Alabama. By J. W. LeMaistre 6 



Reforestation shows promise. By L. O. Crosby 7 



Experience of a pioneer in reforestation. By Henry E. Hardtner 7 



Eighteen thousand acres planted with pine. By J. K. Johnson 8 



Growing timber and livestock. By L. D. Gilbert 9 



The Pine Institute of America discusses profit from turpentine and timber. By 



O. H. L. Wernicke 9 



Working for a perpetual cut. By J. W. Watzek, jr 10- 



Timber growing as an investment. By Austin Cary 13 



TIMBER GROWING IN THE SOUTH 



By W. B. Gkeeley, Chief, Forest Service, United States Department of 



Agriculture 



I believe that the pine-forestry interests and the naval-stores in- 

 dustry in the South are now in a very encouraging situation. We 

 have all quit regarding these industries as dying institutions. We 

 all look upon them now as permanent industries, with opportunity 

 for greater stability than they have ever had and for profits at least 

 equal to what they have realized in the past. 



The timber-growing idea has been grasped throughout much of 

 the South. Public thought has come to appreciate how important 

 forestry and permanent forest industries are to the economic prog- 

 ress of the region. Apparently farm forestry and industrial forestry 

 are taking actual hold of the land more rapidly in the South than 

 in any other section of the United States. 



In their second-growth timber the Southern States have found a 

 large fresh resource. And the discovery of the industrial and eco- 

 nomic value of this second-growth timber has led to the realization 

 that the greatest asset of the forest industries of the South is the 

 timber-growing power of their land. 



The naval-stores industry has disproved some of our gloomy fore- 

 casts of a few years ago. The way in which Georgia has come back 



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