Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1921-07-28
GREAT SOUTHERN
LAUDED FOR REFOR-
ESTRATION PROGRAM

Introducing the farmer to tree
values is the newest job of q lumber
company. Is there a company in your
state doing it? Let US see how this
campaign of education works. Many
natives of the long-leaf pine country
claim an area timbered with lOng-leaf
will not come up q second time to the
same species, but only to the short
leaf varieties. The Louisiana State
Forestry Department has demon
strated the falsity of this theory and
explains the reason, writes Arthur
Newton Pack in the American For
estry Magazine. Every settler in that
country, be he white or black, keeps
a varying number Of hogs. The
chances are he does not know himself
how many, for the state is without q
stock law and stock of all kinds are
allowed to range about through the
unfenced woods and cut-over lands.
Long-leaf seeding devotes the first
year or so Of its life chiefly to grow
ing roots, and the long tap-root with
its heavy sugar content is a favOrite
tid-bit for these range hogs. A few
hungry hogs viii pretty effec:ually
kill the one or two year old long-leaf
stand on tremendous range, in or
der to eat the sweet root. They will
not harm short-leaf seedlings, be-
cause they do not like its roots.
At BOgalusa a company has care
fully fenced nearly five thousand
acres of land, upon most of which
the 1920 seed-fall is growing, this be-
ing the first large scale work of the
kind ever attempted in this country.
Fencing is an expensive operation,
but the company has been willing to
experiment along this line because OF
its faith in the potential value of the
investment.
In spite of these protective meas
ures it is realized that no new devel-
opment can successfully take place
until a large majority of the people
are educated to appreciate its value,
Mr.. Pack points out. The company's
department of forestry has made it a
principal part of it's work to conduct
thorough and continuous publicity
for the education of the local popula-
ton to the Importance and value Of a
permanent timber supply.
This has been carried on in an ex-
cellent common sense way-not only
through the local papers, posted signs
and special appeals, but through in
teresting exhibits Of forest products
at the country fairs. The company
will have a forest values display at
every fair in the state this year. Last
year people crowded to these for
estry booths to see the exhibits and
search for their friends among the
of farmers who had
already taken steps to plant or con-
serve the young timber growth on
their land.
In addition, the company adver-
tised widely it would purchase at
$500 a cord such wood as the farm
eTs wished to cut from their own
lands and deliver at the railroad.
Although the company could have
procured from its own logging and
sawmill waste sufficient raw material
for its pulp mill, 5000 additional
cords were thus purchased for the
sake Of educating the people to the
value of wood. 1t is possible that
much of the success which viii attend
this educational work win be due TO
the special efforts of the chief fores-
ter, j. K. Johnson, for he himself was
born and bred not far from the pres
ent town and the personal equation
is always important in obtaining
good will.