GROWING PINE TIMBER FOR PROFIT IN" THE SOUTH 9 



construction of good roads and bridges; planting in the barren 

 places; scientific thinning and utilization for fuel posts, pulp, etc.; 

 land classification and the development of adaptable species; 

 approved and improved extraction of gum; and continuous mill 

 operation are the goal. It can be done. It is being done. 



GROWING TIMBER AND LIVESTOCK 



By L. D. Gilbert, Vice President and General Manager, Southern Pine Lumber 



Co., Texarkana, Tex. 



As far back as 10 years ago our company realized that without any 

 efforts on our part we were going to realize a second crop of timber 

 on a great portion of our lands, and when we were able to visualize 

 that we immediately put on an aggressive campaign for the purchase 

 of other cut-over lands having a start of young timber that were 

 adjacent to, or blocking with, our own holdings, until to-day we own 

 in fee approximately 225,000 acres of land, all in the short-leaf and 

 hardwood timbered area, so that now we look forward to a perpetual 

 sawmill operation, with the picture of a pulp mill looming in the 

 distance. 



About 10 years ago we started a grazing operation, fencing into 

 pastures approximately 35,000 acres of cut-over land. We had to 

 go through the school of experience and made many mistakes, but 

 we now have this going on a paying basis, not large, and it would 

 not show any profit at all if we charged to the cattle ranch a rental 

 on the land. When we started the grazing undertaking we had an 

 antagonistic native element to deal with. They had been running 

 their cattle and hogs on this free range for many years, besides feel- 

 ing free to hunt and fish on the premises at will. To overcome as 

 much of this antagonism as possible we proposed to the cattlemen tG 

 buy their cattle, but told those who were running hogs that we were 

 not interested in the razorback hogs and that they would have to 

 come out. The cattlemen, in the main, sold us their cattle, which 

 constituted the foundation herd. 



Carpet grass, which is native to our section, is a most wonderful 

 range grass. It is my belief that 1 acre sodded with carpet grass is 

 equal, in carrying capacity, to 10 acres of the best western ranges. 

 It will grow in our section wherever the sun reaches the ground and 

 spreads rapidly if the annual seed crop is not burned off. I believe 

 that if it were practicable to replace the sedge and wire grass on 

 barren long-leaf pine land that there is a question as to whether this 

 would not pay greater returns than our planting such lands in the 

 trees. 



THE PINE INSTITUTE OF AMERICA DISCUSSES PROFITS FROM 



TURPENTINE AND TIMBER 



By O. H. L. Wernicke, formerly General Chairman, the Pine Institute of 

 AmeiHca, Jacksonville, Fla. 



It is an absolute fallacy that capital can not be employed with 

 safety and profit in growing timber. The facts are that few invest- 

 ments now offer more attractive profits or greater safety than grow- 

 ing pine trees of the varieties which yield rosin, turpentine, paper 



