The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-05-15
Wbdt Forestry
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ORESTRY is the science of rails
y ing crops of trees for profit. or
course trees will grow faster on
good soil than on poor soil, but
as a field crop can be raised
every year on good soil. and as 1t would
take from forty to fifty years to raise a
crop of trees to merchanta BILE size on such
SOIL 1t is plain that 1t would not be good
economy to good soil for forestry.
The great secret in forestry is that con-
ferrous trees, such as the pine and spruce.
will flourish on soil that is fit for nothing
else-so that is too light. too hilly or
too rocky for agriculture. The pine takes
from the soil only one-twelfth of mineral
substance that is required for field crops.
Air and water are it's principal food
Land that is non-agricultural on ac-
count of being rocky and hilly often has
good loan soil on which coniferous for
est will grow to merchantahle size Is
proba bly,. little more than fifty years
BY C1erchantable size is meant trees that
have a diameter of from twelve to fifteen
inches breast high The yield would be
about 10000 feet per acre. and it's value
would be not less than 81 per 1000 feet.
board measure. On average non-agri-
cultural land. Including what is very
sandy and including elevated and exposed
situation, it requires about eighty years
for pine to grow to merchantable size.
The pine does It's fastest growing from
it's tenth to eightieth year. After that
age the average growth pine forest
is not rapid enough to earn good interest
on the capital it represents; hence, when
it has reached about that time it has at
tanned it's fiscal age. should be marketed
and succeeded by another growth. AS
rule pine forest VIII yield net revenue
per anrum OF per cent compound inter-
est on the capital invested.
We thus see that the leading principle
OF forestry Is that forest should occupy
only non-agrlcultural land. Another prin-
ciple Is that forest when young should be
crowded to promote upward growth. A
tree that stands alone grows too much to
branches and does not yield good timber.
In crowded forests the trees compete with
each other for air and light; the ten
denCy Is to upward growth, the stronger
trees overtop the weaker ones, which
sra duauy die out: they shed their limbs
and produce those long stems which yield
lumber rree from knots. Sometimes ma
tIre can re assisted with advantage by
artificial thinning. In the Black Forest
of Germany there are on an average when
twenty years OF age $500 trees on an
acre. at the age of eighty years. "1G trees.
All the rest have died or been thinned
out. In starting a pine forest with seed
NnGs two wears old the plants should be
bout three feet apart.
Another principle is that forest, wnen
it has reached It's normal condition.
should be treated as permanent capital.
and no more be cut In Il year, or series OF
years, than equal the average growth of
the whole forest for the same period.
the average annual growth or the state
forests OF SaXony (nearly all on non
agricultural land) is 225 feet. board meas
ure. per acre. There are 4323OO acres OF
such forest: therefore the total annual
growth of the whole forest is 9T.20o.o0o
feet. which amount OF timber can annu-
aliy ne cut without impat rnS its capital.
The forest increases rather than dimlA-
ishcs In value SavonE, which takes the
lead in forestry. derives q net revenue OF
$3.50 per acre from hcr state forests.
which Is owmE to dense population, cheap
labor. good roads and remarkably good
facilities for marketing products. and us
ing all parts of the tree.
Hy normal condition is meant a FOREST
that Yields q regular revenue. y natural
or pr!ncval forest is seldom q normal
forest. suppose we have q primeval pine
forest. The presumption Is that tWO-thirdS
OF the trees are mature. nave ceased
earning interest by their growth. and are
practically dead capital. They should he
cut lust as soon as the3 be sold to
advantage, and the ground where they
stood should be replanted or SoWn Win
pine Vhe third part Of the forest nor
vet mature will be left to Grow till the
timber has reached merchantable size.
Such will be the first process toward
bringing a natural forest into the condl-
ton of a normal or regular revenue-Slela-
ing forest. 1t Will take many years 10
change a natural forest into normal FOR
est A more simple Illustration is this:
Suppose that eighty years ago FARMER
profitable cultivation. and which he be
gan to plant with pine-it matters little
wheth her red or white pine. The irst year
he planted acre with seedlings ahu
each succeeding year planted an acre: at
the end of forty years ne died. ana MS
son continued the work. and this year the
last acre of the eighty has been planted
The Aron Singing society Will produce
n new operetta, Two Kinds of Cloth,
at Mozart hall. Franklin street. near
Sixth Sunday evening, April 20. The Arlon
society has been working on this ope-
retta for some time and hopes to make
it one Of the best it has ever given.
The text and music were written by ffitz
erenz The plot is light and entertain
ing and settles about the adventures of
Rudlinger, the director of a statistical
bureau The operetta will be given I'M
der the direction of John S. erode and to
the piano acconpani'nent of Mrs. Louis
Mich The pa: u -e..dinger, the di-
rector of the bureau, will be taken by
Henry Knaff. Miss Margaret Mich. Mrs.
Julia Schumacher and Miss Anna j. erode
will assume the roles respectively of
Amalie. Rudlinger's daughter: Eulalia,
his sister. and Minta. Amalie's friend.
The part of Schnuferl chief clerk. will
be taken by Henry Schumacher, and Maj.
Won Gradaus and Lieut.. Won Wildberg
will be sung by August Barfus and
George N Gerlach. NJ. f. Gardiner will
Now the acre that was planted eighty
years ago contains merchantab bic timber.
probably $50 trees. aggregating, perhaps,
40 600 feet. board measure Ia conservative
eStlmate). and of the net value of $500.
This acre can be cut this wear. and VIII
he replanted unless. as Is probable.
growth of Young trees from seed of the
parent trees has already started. Next
wear another acre of the forest will be
eighty years old. can be treated in the
same way. and on. Such. on small
scale. represents a normal forest.
Another principle is that the cutting