GEOWING PINE TIMBEK FOR PROFIT IN THE SOUTH 5 



Some things are essential — fire protection in the first instance. It 

 must be complete protection during the early life of the tree. 

 Thinning will come later as a cultural measure, and we have done 

 some of it already. We have not perfected our system yet in either 

 department, so we don't know what the cost will be, but it does not 

 look as if it would be excessive. Fire breaks are one feature in 

 our scheme of protection. We patrol our lands and expect soon 

 to have a fire lookout. We fight fire whenever it raises its head, 

 and we have an organization and equipment ready at all times. 



I am in the timber-raising game, on a large scale, and, unless 

 something that I certainly do not expect stops me, shall be in the 

 business the rest of my life. 



TIMBER GROWS RAPIDLY IN GEORGIA 



By C. B. Harman, Secretary, Southern Sash, Door, and) Millwork Manufacturing 



Association 



Having been in the sawmill, lumber, and millwork business for 

 35 years, I am frequently asked if it is possible to grow yellow- 

 pine trees in the South sufficiently large during the business life of 

 a man to produce merchantable lumber at a fair profit. Along with 

 this question usually comes another as to whether second-growth 

 trees are valuable for commercial purposes. My answer is always 

 yes to both questions. 



All lumbermen and woodsmen in Georgia and elsewhere in the 

 South know very well that yellow-pine trees grow large enough in 

 20 to 25 years to produce 6-inch and 8-inch lumber — and under the 

 most unfavorable circumstances of no protection from forest fires 

 and no attention whatever. It is well known that long leaf and slash 

 pine trees 10, 12, and 15 years old are also being worked for 

 turpentine. 



Let me emphasize the matter as forcibly as I can that lumber now 

 made of any kind of a tree can find a ready market for one purpose 

 or another when properly manufactured and seasoned and offered for 

 sale intelligently. It can also be hauled to the railroad or other 

 shipping point much greater distances than a few years ago. I 

 make the prediction that within the next 10 years the demand for 

 turpentine-producing tracts of timber will far exceed the supply 

 and that the value of turpentine stumpage will be very attractive and 

 remunerative. 

 Yes, southern yellow pine trees will grow large enough in 20 to 

 25 years to make framing lumber and to produce turpentine, and 

 in 15 years large enough to make cordwood, poles, and pulpwood. 



GOOD RETURNS IN TURPENTINE AND TIMBER, FROM SLASH PINE 

 IN NORTHERN FLORIDA 



By Harry Lee Baker, State forester, Florida Board of Forestry 



At the age of 37 years a dense stand of slash pine near Starke, 

 Fla., had 16,700 board feet per acre. Of this stand, 275 trees were 

 cupped for gum. It is estimated that the trees would produce 4.4 

 barrels of gum a year, worth $10 per barrel, which gave an annual 

 return of $44 per acre. It was estimated that this yield could have 



