Service, Farm Security Administration, Agricultural 

 Adjustment Administration, and the Forest Service. 

 Submarginal lands have been withdrawn from culti- 

 vation; payments for reforestation on certain lands 

 are being made under the Agricultural Conservation 

 Program; and the acreage of woodland on cooperat- 

 ing farms is increasing in Soil Conservation districts. 

 Several agencies are helping individual landowners 

 to increase the returns from forest land. Within 

 the boundaries of the Francis Marion and Sumter 

 National Forests, submarginal farm land and cut- 

 over areas purchased by the United States are be- 

 coming reforested. The combined effect of these ac- 



tivities is to increase the forest area and develop an 

 appreciation of the need and use of forests in the 

 land-use program of the State. 



Although progress has been made, too many land- 

 owners still look upon forests as wild growth — for- 

 tunately of value — to be cut and sold at the earliest 

 opportunity. Consequently, the fact must be em- 

 phasized that forests, like other crops, yield much 

 greater returns when properly managed for perma- 

 nent production than when left untended, to be cut 

 over, whenever there are a few merchantable trees in 

 the stands, without adequate provision for succeed- 

 ing cuts. 



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