Southern Pines Pay . . 



Profitable Use of Worn-out Lands 



i^\N A FARM in central Mississippi, back of the barn is a worn-out 

 ^- , hillside that lay idle for 9 years. The farmer who owned it often 

 wished pines would r 'come in," but none came. One night he attended 

 a meeting in the neighborhood schoolhouse and heard a visiting forester 

 tell how to plant trees to make idle lands pay. The farmer went home 

 and the next spring (1926) planted pines 8 by 8 feet apart on the land. 

 In 4 years the trees were 8 to 12 feet high; when pruned at 6 years of age 

 they were 12 to 20 feet in height. Some 5 years later, after 11 years' 

 growth, they were 25 to 40 feet in height and up to 8 inches in diameter, 

 and improvement thinnings had furnished both pulpwood for sale and 

 fuel wood for the farm. 



Watch these trees grow: A, After the first year's growth, age of trees 2 years (April 1927); 



B, the trees are now (October 1929) 4 years old; C, after 2 more years' growth (April 1932) 



the pines were pruned; D, the planting, now 11 years old (October 1936), has already 



furnished an economic return in the form of pulpwood and fuel. 



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