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 out'of the ground. 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 minions of seedlings annually. The saplings, about 2? years old, during the ccurse of the 
meal were pulled completely cut of the ground and left in their present condition. Others had 
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, there were found 38 longleaf seed- 
lings recently kMled by hogs, and 5 living. This is a slaughter of 6,0S0 per acre. The tract in 
east Texas was cut for logs in 1896 (20 years prior) and again cut for piling 10 years later, but 
hardly a young tree has escaped the hogs and fires 
DESTRUCTION BY NATIVE RAZORBACK HOGS. 
