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Loblolly Crop in a Borrow Pit 



"DINES will grow in poor soil, but they grow faster in good soil. A 

 ■*- demonstration of poor soil put to productive use in growing pines is 

 to be found in the piedmont section of Georgia. An old borrow pit from 

 which dirt was taken in bringing one of the main highways to grade was 

 set to loblolly pines (black pines) in 1927. The department of forestry of 

 the State College of Agriculture supervised the planting and erected a 

 signboard to call the attention of the passing public to the future timber 

 tract. 



One year after pines were planted in an old borrow pit (October 1927). 



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