56 WORKING PLAN, LANDS IN BERKELEY COUNTY, 8S. C. 
(3) By encouraging the growth of fungi, which weaken the trees, 
cause windfall, and render the diseased parts worthless for lumber. 
Fire protection on this tract is difficult because of the ease with which 
fires can be started, not because of the intensity of the fires. Grass fires 
are generally easily put out, either by whipping them out with brush | 
or by back firing. Slash fires are more serious, but less common. 
Lumbering so tears up the ground and lessens the inflammability of 
the ground litter that with slight precautions fire can be prevented on _ 
cut-over lands. 
Fire protection for the present should be directed mainly to the cut- | 
over lands where a young growth of pine is starting or may start, but | 
all lands should also be protected and fires put out so far as possible. 
One man can at present easily patrol the holdings, and fires should not | 
get beyond control before they will be discovered. The ranger should 
put out small fires himself; but in case of a fire becoming dangerous — 
help should be furnished him upon demand. 
It is estimated that one man employed for eight months of the year, | 
at a cost of $200, should pretty thoroughly keep fire from doing great | 
damage on the tract. 
COST OF CONSERVATIVE MANAGEMENT. 
Cutting to 14 inches diameter breasthigh will curtail the present cut 
of pine by about 656 board feet per acre, or 26,043,200 board feet for 
the present holdings. ‘This curtailment is in the trees from 12 to 14 
inches in diameter, which will form part of the yield thirty years hence, 
when the second cutting is made. 
The actual expenses per year, aside from the value of the timber | 
left standing which might be cut, are estimated as follows: 
Hire: PROteeMOMve se so. eee ee mac oe Cee eee cers ine ce eee $200 
Marking trees ior removal’ 5.) 282 ahs Say ea sete ye are 375 
Salary Oba fOrestenae on eon. fee ee oe eee ae me re ome 1, 500 
Lavine expenses! Ofaoresternis ay au4) ae Lo oe Ba ney ey ee ee 300 
Ot ees ENS ape A Sek a SOE MNS Ce a ae ee eee om 2, 375 
These expenses must be justified by the increase in the productive- | 
ness of the forest. 
RULES FOR LUMBERING. 
The following rules should be enforced in lumbering the tract of | 
the E. P. Burton Lumber Company: 
(1) All pine to be cut shall be marked, and no trees shall be cut 
that are not marked. 
(2) All pine 14 inches and over in diameter breasthigh shall be 
marked for removal, unless in the judgment of the forester the tree 
should be left for seed. If trees above the diameter limit are left for | 
seed, enough trees below the limit should be cut to offset the large 
