Hr-U.S.N. 10/10 



In other words, tress are to bii managed as a "cultivated" crov. 

 The cultivation consisting nainly of thinning and weeding out at the^ 

 proper time for quickest growth, and always keeping fire out, of course. 



Handling tress as a crop is a comparatively new thing. The point 

 IS, that we are learning that we can go Nature one better in producing- tin- 

 Der .or our purposes, by handling trees as a crop. Zie Forest Service is 

 experimenting at a number of its stations scattered throughout the 

 country on better cropping methods for timbers of different kinds, 



i-* . findings show that southern "oines produce sawlogs in twenty- 



live to forty years. And that our two-purpose slash-pine will -oroduce 

 tui-penome at 'twenty years and timber at twenty-five. This gives us a 

 new view oi the possibilities v/liich lie in many cut-ovjr sections where 

 1 arming tne land to small arjiual crops no longer pays, or where the land 

 is unsxiited to the -olow. 



AiTi;OUITCa.IENTr Tliis Station cooperates 

 Agric\iltui-e in presenting these' visits 

 every two weeks. 



with the United States Department of 

 with Uncle Sara's Naturalists once 



