How to Proceed 
In the Tennessee Valley (a good sample of the whole 
south), in the land of slight winters where cattle can 
pasture the year round, thirteen million acres of forest 
land, of which 5,500,000 acres are worthless cut-over 
land, are looking for a master. Pennsylvania has 
7,000,000 such acres. 
Let us visualize buying the 5,500,000 acres in Ten¬ 
nessee for $5.00 an acre, total $27,500,000, a small sum in 
the financial world. Add $10,000,000 to maintaining and 
developing for the first decade, at which time it will carry 
itself. The maturing value of the timber alone would 
amount to $825,000,000 at $150 per acre. I’ve known of 
Tennessee timber bringing $90,000 for 2,000 acres. Ger¬ 
man foresters are getting as much return per acre per 
year from forests as from farm lands. They have 4,000 
uses for wood. Add to wood uses the following and you’ll 
obtain results of unbelievable proportions, but fire control 
is a prerequisite: 
1. Walnut for timber, nuts for commerce, human and 
game food. 
2. Cattle food. Varieties of hickory, pecans, hicans, 
honey locust, acorns, beech, persimmons, chestnuts, 
and cherry, etc., properly planted and managed in a 
forest tree crop program, will feed thousands of 
hogs, sheep, cattle, wildlife and people. 
3. Game. Pennsylvania alone takes in more from her 
game than Kentucky does for all its total crop of 
poultry and livestock. All game can profitably be 
pastured on tree crops. 
4. Many have an immediate market for human con¬ 
sumption at a high price. 
5. In addition, there are a few dozen minor tree crops 
used seasonally that can be grown and marketed at 
a profit, such as Xmas greens, drugs, tannin and 
rustic craft. 
6. Rapid-growing tree strains can be developed to 
bring cost production of timber to as much as l/7th 
normal growth cost; with the new method of cutting 
the best trees every few years a perpetual logging 
program can be maintained instead of slashing and 
then leaving the area as has been the practice. 
7. Timber to supply cellulose for a thousand articles of 
commerce besides paper. 
Watering 
MyDRQSPEAI^ C 
Yes, it’s always a job. We undisciplined Americans will 
kill ourselves making money to spend “millions for a 
thing but not one cent of personal interest in taking care 
of it.” Don’t forget those trees, folks, I’ve put MY life 
blood into growing them; it’s now up to you. Soak them 
with a Hydrospear. Insert the long rod in the ground, 
hook up to the garden hose and turn ’er on. “It waters 
where it is needed most,” down by the deep roots. Don’t 
let another hot summer go by without owning one. $3.50 
prepaid. 
Tree Protectors 
As much as I preach and cuss about people not protect¬ 
ing their trees from rabbits and what’s worse the wood 
chuck, they keep on feeding them GOOD trees. WE’re 
carrying these protectors of hardware mesh as a favor 
to save your trees. How many can you use? 18 in. high, 
3 in. calip. 15 cents each. $12 per hundred. 
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