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Scouts of Macon, Ga., planting seedling trees in November 1923 



Dual Crops From Idle Acres 



OLASH and longleaf are classed as dual-purpose trees and can be used 

 ^ for producing two crops — turpentine and timber. 



The Boy Scouts of Macon, Ga., had some old fields on their 90-acre 

 tract at Camp Al-Sihah. Their leader called in the visiting Federal ex- 

 tension forester, who suggested they plant it to trees for timber and tur- 

 pentine production. The trees were planted in November 1923 but were 

 dry when planted, and most of them died. However, 1,000 thrifty slash 

 pine seedlings were planted the next spring, and the former bare land is 

 now a forest where rabbits and other game find food and cover. In a 

 very few years the trees will reach 9 inches in diameter, when profitable 

 turpentining can be started. 



A, After 3 years'' growth many of the trees are taller than the Scouts who planted them, 



this one being 9 feet high {October 1927); B, 12 years later the Scout pictured in A is 



assistant scoutmaster and the tree is 40 feet high, 9 x /<l inches in diameter, and is being 



turpentined for the second year {April 1939). 



