66 WORKING PLAN, FOREST LANDS IN ALABAMA. 
look out for chances to increase the acreage of the tract by ee 
and to protect the property from trespass. ! 
As there is no stock law in any of the counties in which the tract is } 
located, and as everybody is allowed by law free access to any and all } 
unfenced land for the purpose of ranging cattle, sheep, or hogs. the 
only act which constitutes trespass on forest land is the cutting and 
removal of timber. The company has made no attempt to protect its 
land from fires, but has rather encouraged them on the theory that 
repeated annual burnings prevent an accumulation of combustible 
material which would afford fuel for fires large enough to harm the 
timber. When it is time to begin lumbering the plan is to construct 
a railroad leading from Moundville, on the Alabama Great Southern 
Railroad, up the valley of Elliott Creek, and, following the general 
course of the Moundville-Centerville public road, to cross the low 
divide to Little Sandy Creek and to terminate on Little Sandy Creek 
in section 15 of township 23 north, range 7 east, where a mill will be 
erected. 
THE SECOND Crop. 
ESTIMATES OF FUTURE YIELD. 
Estimates of future yield have been confined, as on the Coosa County 
tract, to the longleaf pine on the longleaf pine land. The results 
given in Table X XIX were computed from an average acre for § 
Blocks II, Ul, V, and VI, on which the combined area of longleaf 
pine land is 43,778 acres, or 79.1 per cent of the total area of the four 
blocks. 
Blocks I and IV have been left out of the calculation, because the 
stand on them is largely composed of loblolly and shortleaf pine, 
and the silvical problem involved is distinct from that of the rest 
of the tract. It is a question of raising a second crop of loblolly and 
shortleaf pine rather than one of longleaf. As no particular study 
has been made on the Kaul lands of the habits or rate of growth of 
these two species, and as the Kaul Lumber Company is not especially 
interested in them, it has been thought best to leave Blocks I and IV 
cut of consideration. 7 
Block VII has not been included in the calculations for the reason 
that its stand is so irregular. On 2,500 acres, or over 30 per cent of 
the area, the forest has been entirely destroyed, and owing to the 
prevention of reproduction by fires there will not be a second crop of 
merchantable size within a reasonable period. In other parts of the 
block the timber has been so injured by boxing that there are no trees 
which can be relied upon to serve as a basis for a second crop, or else 
the forest is similar in character to the forest of Blocks I and IV. 
Those parts on which there is a basis for a second crop of longleaf | 
pine can be included under the recommendations given for Blocks — 
LL, ILL, V, and VI. 
