The farmer and mechanic., 1915-10-12
FORESTRY SYSTEM FOR THE STAFF:
ONE OF ITS MOST PRESSING NEEDS
lumber Industry OF Coast Country Can Be Made AS Permanent
AS cotton Willing BY Means of Little Intelligent Handling
of The Timber Crops

i1nproVldent customs it can be cut only
once iii thirty or forty years Our
Agricultural Department is spending
lots Of money to show farmers how
to grow crops and what land to plant
It should also show how to save the
big natural crop of forest in eastern
North Carolina, and capable school
OF forestry at A. and NJ. and at tn.
university would be money we'll in
vested.
The pine OF eastern North Caro-
lima is the short leaf, and short leaf
pine has novel place among lumber
woods. Fifty years ago eastern North
Carolina was covered with forests Of
loblolly or short leaf pine. Except for
the vast quantity Of it this pine was
valueless, for long leaf was the pine
of the South. and white pine was the
pine Of the North. When these other
pine trees were wasted the lumber
man saw the short leaf, and it was
good. The short leaf pine began to
go to market, and it grew in poDu-
| larity with marvellous swiftness. To-
day short leaf pine is the pine for
| many important purposes, and it is
the pine tree that can be depended
| on, for it is a tree of rapid growth.
There is the secret Of the perma-
nency Of the lumber industry of east
ern North Carolina if our State and
people will pay attention to the posi-
bilities and the dangers that hedge
| around the business. Short leaf pine
| is the quickest in growth Of any Of the
merchantable forest trees. On some
| OF the Neuse river lands the third crop
of short leaf pine has been cut in
twenty-five years, and the third cut
ting was the best OF the lot. Blu,
it must have care and attention to dc
this"
Community Affair.
Saving the timber crop is a com
munity affair. 1t concerns the mil
man. and the land owner, but 1t con.
Germs the entire community, for the
extinction Of an industry is either the
extinction of the community or a Sc
we're blow, and a wholly useless one
Fires Mr.. O'Rerrv so!s fo-7''' - -
most serious danger to the lumber in
dustry and he would have hunter
kept off Of timber lands. Then h
would require that no timber undel
fourteen inches should be cut by tn
!; lumberman, both for his own protec
ton and for the welfare Of the lane
owner. He argues that II the lane
owner in selling his timber will re
, serve everything under fourteen
, inches he will In a short time hav
, another crop to sell, for with the bi
! | Stu1l cut Oh tNc way I9c SiiidA SAiiA
, her takes rapid growth. and is 500
ready for the saw, to ne followed b
successive crops indefinitely.
To cut nothing under fOurtee
inches would be good policy for tn
mill man Mr.. O'Berry says. because
: would mean a new crop for him pres
entity and q permanent business in
!. stead Of temporary location an
!. moving away after few years. Wait
ing for a crop Of pine trees to grON
/, may seem like slow business. Blu
3 the fact is that it is right rapid.
is not uncommon for a fourteen-inc
!, tree to grow to thirty inches in f1ftee
! years A fourteen inch log fourtee
> feet long measures out 100 feet
. lumber The same length Of log nine
:, teen inches through gives 21O feet, c
4 more than double. and 80 inches sam
:. length will give SIS feet. OF five an
y ree-qnarter times as much lumbe
/. II Is years will see a tree grow TrOl
= IA inches to 80 inches it sees the valu
!, Of the timber increase almost 81
II times in Is years. which is rigf
> satisfa ctory increase for an inves
ment which requires not the least a
: tention.
4 But there is another thing TO r.
:, member in regard to this increase
o values Fine timber on the STUN
: gets more valuable every day regarf
q less Of growth. Twenty-Five years ae
pine stumpage was worth about
O to Is cents a thousand feet NOW
i is worth three to five dollars and
9 ten years more it is likely to be wort
81 two to three dollars more. The trs
% not only gives several times MOI
n lumber. hut the value per thousaE
~ increase also making the cxpecta tic