Bui. 1061, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 
Plate XIX 
Fig. 1. — The native piney-woods hog is one of the worst enemies of longleaf pine. 
These 2-year-old seedlings were dug up by hogs. In the spring, when, the ground 
is soft and available food scarce, hogs eat the thick, spongy, succulent bark 
around the taproot and larger laterals, thereby killing millions of seedlings: annu- 
ally. The seedlings during the course of the meal were pulled completely out of 
the ground and ,left in their present condition. Others lost their tops and on 
some the roots were skinned and girdled without much damage to the tops 
Fig. 2. — On 1 square rod in eastern Texas, selected at random, were found 38 long- 
leaf seedlings recently killed by hogs, and 5 living. This is a slaughter at the 
rate of 6,080 trees per acre. The tract in east Texas was cut for logs in 1896 
(20' years prior) and was again cut for piling 10 years later, but hardly a young 
tree has escaped the hogs and fires 
DESTRUCTION BY NATIVE RAZORBACK HOGS 
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