Southern Pines Pay 



Paying Business for Farmers 



HPWO FARMERS in the southern Coastal Plain section of Georgia 

 •*- make good money by growing timber crops. Each was Hand poor" 

 with worn-out, idle sandy land. Each began planting pine seedlings 

 in the spring of 1926, and now both have young stands of forest trees 

 ranging from 30 to 40 feet in height and 6 to 9 inches in breast-high 

 diameter. 



Part of the 72 acres of poor land set in pine seedlings in the spring of 1926 by a young 

 farmer. The seedlings were spaced 10 by 10 feet apart, or 436 per acre. Fire was ex- 

 cluded from this typical flatwoods land. When the trees were 12 years old, in the winter 

 of 1937-38, the owner was offered $4,200 for the tract, or an average of about $60 per 

 acre. The trees thus had made him nearly $5 an acre a year. One-half of this value 

 was in the turpentine and the rest in the timber prospects. F-373470 



