Southern Pines Pay . . 



From Sand Hills to Forest 



AFAHMER living in the heart of the sand-hill lands in South Carolina 

 decided to plant pines as a possible paying crop after cotton and 

 corn and everything else he had tried had failed. The native growth 

 before cultivation consisted of scrub oak and pines. The pine seedlings 

 were planted in the spring of 1926. When viewed in July 1938, the stand 

 at the age of 13 years contained many trees 35 to 45 feet high and 6 to 9 

 inches in diameter at breast height, and a few more than 12 inches in 

 diameter. 





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The same planting as that 

 pictured on the opposite 

 page, now 13 years old 

 {July 1938). The largest 

 tree is 12 inches in diam- 

 eter, and it is time to 

 start turpentining those to 

 be removed in improving 

 the stand. 



