﻿GRAZING. 
  

  

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  How 
  old 
  the 
  trees 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  to 
  escape 
  damage 
  would 
  depend 
  

   chiefly 
  on 
  the 
  intensity 
  of 
  the 
  fires. 
  It 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  first 
  ones 
  

   were 
  the 
  most 
  severe, 
  from 
  the 
  accumulation 
  of 
  fuel 
  which 
  they 
  would 
  

   find. 
  On 
  the 
  whole, 
  one 
  would 
  conjecture 
  from 
  the 
  condition 
  of 
  the 
  

   forest 
  that 
  they 
  began 
  about 
  seventy-rive 
  years 
  ago. 
  

  

  It 
  was 
  in 
  1819 
  that 
  Arkansas, 
  acquired 
  by 
  the 
  United 
  States 
  a- 
  a 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  Louisiana 
  Purchase 
  in 
  1803. 
  received 
  a 
  separate 
  Territorial 
  

   organization, 
  and 
  in 
  1837 
  that 
  it 
  was 
  admitted 
  as 
  a 
  State. 
  The 
  settle- 
  

  

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  /2 
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  24 
  28 
  32 
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  40 
  

   OUTSIDE 
  DIAMETER 
  BREAST 
  HIGH. 
  

  

  Fig. 
  2. 
  — 
  Diagram 
  showing 
  the 
  relation 
  between 
  diameter 
  on 
  the 
  stump 
  and 
  diameter 
  breasthigh 
  for 
  

  

  Shortleaf 
  and 
  Loblolly 
  Pine. 
  

  

  ment 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  took 
  place, 
  therefore, 
  at 
  the 
  time. 
  when 
  the 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  of 
  the 
  forest 
  leads 
  us 
  to 
  infer 
  that 
  tires 
  began. 
  

  

  GRAZING. 
  

  

  Cattle 
  are 
  not 
  ranged 
  extensively 
  on 
  the 
  Sawyer 
  & 
  Austin 
  tract 
  and 
  

   they 
  do 
  practically 
  no 
  damage 
  to 
  the 
  forest. 
  Of 
  sheep 
  grazing 
  there 
  

   is 
  none. 
  

  

  Hogs 
  are 
  numerous 
  and 
  hog 
  ranging 
  is 
  common. 
  This 
  should 
  be 
  

   encouraged, 
  since 
  the 
  hogs 
  eat 
  the 
  acorns 
  and 
  thus 
  work 
  against 
  the 
  

  

  