Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-04-09
Pine Trees Reclaim Abandoned Farms.

Everywhere in the
the magnificent
The demand lumber operations
comparatively those who wish timber
uXuance will have visit distant and isolated sections country
Under the conditions brought by the exploitation
virgin type pine has
developed into within
clearing the original forests for agricultural purposes This old
field tvpe promises TO increase in vaue more and more with the c
ponding price products
both in the South and in the North although they arise from different
become species
the South before Civil War; Gull
tvaton which have since been allowed
thousands of often included within single plantation
mostly cleared and growing splendid crops cotton
and other valuable farm products 1t to-day
certain sections of the South old plantations great are
growing obloly generally called field pine
responsible neglect cultivated land With
the freeing the slaves the plantations could
and the land abandoned many cases. however the
land impoverished through cultivation
of fertilizers will be reclaimed the future now
splendid stands of pine already large numbered
land that they owe Growth has been phenomenal
inches of than
twenty to twenty-five years.
Looy pine procay nearly every yea and being
light these seeds carried long distances by open
places young start The ground has
many years young oak brush to nterfee
with their growth as in the OF the Long
leaf pine the other hand seeds much less abundan
being carried the trees so
most in taking possession abandoned nd AND
emily deserves its popular name of '.old field pine
land that would otherwise
% hs son e ave has ss s until ers recently THAT the a old field
pine much superior for
purpose Fence rails made from pine
but obol rails decay and must be frequently replaced
for ties So the old fields allowed grow up
touched that occasionally the would
to prevent them from encroacing into his very door
changing rapidly and of certain
woods The longeaf disappearing
few take the place the Old
o kinds of wood Lobloly old pine to
exceedingly durable when mpgnaed with
old field
the railroads and shipped treating plants
Small portable mills are easily and cheaPy located and of these
cutting best old
used locally the farmers The numbering
extensively in these second growth stands oldd
The situation in the North is
odl0elds
South The seeds light and distances
the fields where they find plenty light
onS to make excellent growth.
there
ton which have since been abandoned have
Farming has always been small develop
the
has been handicapped his competition markets Many
the younger have left to the
cities for lucrative employment All this
old farms and fields
There tendency for who the years ago to re-
and spend the months among
They the native forests and consequently growth
fields
| commercial value attached to this young growth.
The white of the Northeast does growth
the old field the South
lumber, boxboard shingles other
second growth 1t is estimated
abandoned land in southern part
this growing white pine. Investigations that it most
profitable to lumber these white pine when
they fifty to sixty years old.
There and increasing our old field
lands 1t the object forestry growth
on land that better suited for At the
are vast that producing
Such should permitted
fire and misuse until such time they desirable
other purposes