4 MISC. PUBLICATION 2 4, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



are taken from the official county records. Note the differentials 

 as to tax rates and timber values. 



TAX RATES AND TIMBER VALUES 



WITHOUT FOREST PROTECTION 



The tax rate is $1.38. 



All farm property pays 32 per cent 

 of total tax. 



All forest land pays 15 per cent of 

 the total tax. 



Forest land in farms pays 7 per cent 

 of the total tax. 



Forest land not in farms pays 8 per 

 cent of the total tax. 



City and corporate property pays 53 

 per cent of the total tax. 



Forest land worth $15 per acre. 



WITH FOREST PROTECTION 



The tax rate is $1.02." 



All improved farm property pays 23 

 per cent of the total tax. 



All forest land pays 37 per cent of 

 the total tax. 



Forest land in farms pays 17 per 

 cent of the total tax. 



Forest land not in farms pays 20 

 per cent of the total tax. 



City and corporate property pays 40 

 per cent of the total tax. 



Forest land worth $50 per acre. 



Which condition represents the more equitable distribution ? What 

 more convincing argument could be had ? Is it not clear that under 

 proper forest management, you can eat your cake and still have it ? 



TIMBER-PRODUCTS CO. FINDS PINES PROFITABLE 



By Alex. K. Sessoms, President, Timber-Products Co., Cogdell, Ga. 



I have been a landman all my life, but only within 10 years have 

 I had any realizing sense that timber might be grown as a money 

 crop. In fact, my real conviction on the matter goes back only 

 five years, to the fall of 1922. 



I had a large acreage of pasture, and the fences automatically 

 helped to keep fire off after I ceased myself to set fires in connec- 

 tion with the business I was doing. One day in the fall of 1922, 

 I was riding round these pastures and to my surprise noted that 

 great stretches of land, mostly the bare-cut hill stretches, had seeded 

 up from the timber standing in the swamps and draws. It was 

 slash pine, knee-high at 2 years old, mostly, and for many hundred 

 acres it was so thick that there was more on the ground than was 

 needed. It was a wonderful sight, and it set me thinking. 



The winter following I protected this young timber to some extent, 

 burning round my pasture borders and along roads to keep fire 

 from starting or spreading. Two years of this protection put an 

 astonishing development on these young trees. Meanwhile I had 

 done more thinking. 



It seems certain that with us slash pine on good soil will make 

 a turpentine tree in 15 to 20 years, and if they will stand 10 feet 

 apart, which is about what I think they will do, that will give 

 over 400 to the acre. When I got that figured out, even though I 

 cut the figure down a lot for " fail " places, irregularity, poor soil, 

 and areas that will not grow pine, growing timber looked to me like 

 a good business proposition. 



I found other men of the same mind, and I have some of them 

 associated with me. We have enlarged the property until it now 

 totals 60,000 acres. On it we are working turpentine and cutting 

 some timber to give us a revenue. A main part of our plan, however, 

 is to raise a new crop of timber. 



