Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1920-07-08
More About Trees
and Tree Farming

Tree growing is a great opportun-
ity for every forward-looking man or
woman, in tbs tree-growing South
land. The United States government
has completed an investigation of the
timber and lumber conditions of the
entire country and among other
things, Secretary of Agriculture E..
7. Meredith says:
"Three-fifths of the original tim
Der of the Unite States is gone: that
We are using timber four times as
last as we are growing it; and that
nearly two-thirds Of the timber left
is west of the Great Plains, where its
availability to the average user is
greatly lessened."
"Other existing evidences of tim
Der depletion" said Secretary Mere
dith, "are the scarcity and excessive
cost Of timber products of high quail
ity, particularly of hardwoods, which
already is critical for many Ameri-
can industries, the shrinking pro-
duetion of turpentine and rosin in
the Southern pineries, and the neces-
slty OF importing two thirds of the
newsprint which the United States
requires"
The secretary recommends tree
farming by both small and large de-
nuded waste land owners, and fire
control as the only methods which
VIII save the country from an abso-
lutte timber products famine. It
ought to be of great encouragement
and satisfaction to every one in this
locality to know that the Great South
ern Lumber COMPANY. the largest
operators in lumber, naval stores and
paper production, and large owners
or both timber and cut-over lands.
has recentl-- adopted the policy of
leaving uncut and standing in the for
est all trees and young timber under
eight inches in diamter at the butt.
Through their Cut-Over Land De-
partment they are employing men to
stay in the woods with the logging
crews to assist in conserving and
protecting these young trees from
fire, etc. Following the logging and
woods crews, these men remove from,
around these young trees the slash
which would otherwise cause the de-
struction Of the trees by fire.
The logging crews, Including the
saWyers, skidder operators, pulp
woods crews, are all interested in
helping in this important matter. II
is true, as everyone knows, that it is
economically impossible to save all
these young trees, but by this co-op-
erative method there will be a suffi-
Gent number saved to not only re-
seed the land, but furnish another
small cutting of timber in a few
years. A careful check is being made
behind the logging operation. snow
ing just the number and size and con-
dition of the young trees left on each
forty acres Of land.
In addition to this, the Great
Southern is fencing tract of de-
nuded land near Bogalusa which will
be ploughed and planted to several
varieties Of pine. This effort is
largely for experimental purposes. It
is confidently believed, however,
based on information from other sec
tons of the country, particularly in
Florida and Georgia, where expert
ments Of this kind have been tried
out covering a period Of several
years, that this undertaking here at
Bogalusa viii, in a short time, prove
to be very interesting demonstra- |
lion Of the possibilities Of tree farm
ing on our poorest soils.
All this is costing the company con-
siderable money, but it is q worthy
cause by q worthy company and they |
are to be congratulated in this pub |
lie patriotic shirt, the ultimate out |
come of which viii, no doubt, revert |
TO their own benefit as well as that |
Of the entire country.