Establishing and grazing firebreaks. --In 1949, a series of new 

 tests was started to find economical and effective ways to establish 

 sodded strips to serve as firebreaks and provide nutritious summer-fall 

 grazing. 



The first test of this series was made in cooperation with the 

 Industrial Lumber Company, Elizabeth, Louisiana, in the Company's 

 slash pine plantations. Here a dense carpetgrass sod was established 

 in one growing season on strips that were disked, fertilized with 1, 000 

 pounds of basic slag per acre, seeded with carpetgrass and common 

 lespedeza in April 1949, and then grazed by cattle season-long (fig. 24). 

 This method was very effective and rapid, but relatively expensive. 



In 1950, test plots were installed on the Longleaf Tract to find 

 the minimum treatment needed to establish a sodded firebreak strip. It 

 was concluded that the cheapest method is to prescribe -burn the dry 



Figure 24. - 

 season. 



-This firebreak of carpetgrass sod was established in one 



