Bui. 1061, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
PLATE VII 
Fig. 1. — The owner values this old field longleaf pine highly. The trees are mostly 20 to 25 years 
old, and from 30 to 50 feet in height and 8 to 10 inches in diameter breasthigh— a very rapid growth. 
It is close to his house and furnishes the farm with poles, fuelwood, and recently small saw tim- 
ber. Twice a year the pine straw is raked off and in part used for fertilizer on the cotton fields 
and partly sold in turn for stable bedding, as is extensively done in many parts of the South. 
A section of one is shown in Figure 2. The stand is very irregular and contains only about one- 
half the full number of trees. (Florence County, S. C.) 
Fig. 2.— Section of representative tree in old field longleaf stand 
shown in Fig. 1. Twenty to twenty-four year old trees are 50 
feet tall and 7 to 10 inches in diameter at breastheight. The sec- 
tion, cut at breastheight, shows 16 annual rings. The effect upon 
grow th of a bad fire 9 years ago will be observed in the ninth ring 
counting from the outside. (Florence County, S. C.) 
