The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-12-18
HANDSOME PROFIT
In LOBLOLLY PINE
Ten7Acre Tract In WicomIco County
Nets Owner 1856 An Acre. Grows
Two Feet A Year.

JeStervi1le, Md, Dec. "A recent
cutting of a 10 acre tract of lobloIlS
pine III Wicomico county Melted It's
owner 1855 or 1855 an acre. For
the 1880 feet of 1-inch lumber he
received $2S per 1000 feet, or
$3.50. The expenses, including
cutting, handling and all, amounted
to $1,9O5. After the cutting ne
sold the scraps FOR $3.50.
Loblolly is the long leaf bull pine.
known sometimes on the Eastern
Shore as corn stalk pine and has
liking for low lands. 1t is called the
loblolly in its Southern home, ana
that name has been adopted in this
section. Kent county marks lts
northern boundary and the Gulf OF
Mexico it's southern,
At Jesterville there stands today
the oldest plantation of looiohg
known. I'm 1877 John Jester, mer-:
chant of that place, who was always
trying out something new, saw the
coming shortage of. pine. He had an
acre of land that would not grow
thing but mosquitoes. He put 1t lii
loblolly The 2-year-old sapl1ngs he
PLANTED in squares feet -Dg 8 feet
coualing sos to The acre. In 1897
the trees had reached a height OF ~
FEC. and measured to s inches IN
diameter at the breast of man ~.
Il. Fl is the technical way of writing
i'll.
Forty-five years later this man
made forest has reached the height
80 feet and is still going up
feet wear. The trees, 236 of them,
are living, and average 13 inches u.
q. H. 1t is IS feet from the ground
30 the lower limb. II cut now TINS
ore acre would yield more as cord
wood than as lumber. 1t would
,=ttcld 65 cords at SIS, or 1925, while
for lumber not more than $2SU
could be counted at So per 100 feet
hoard measure Jesterville is To-
Gated between Biyalve and Nanticoke
in Wicomico county. and in that sec
ton there are more than $4,000
acres of land suited for this new kind
OF farming.
Over in dorchester in 1914 the
State Board of Forestry, under the
direction of J.. A. Cope. Assistant
State Forester, planted 80 acres OF
"no-account'' land in. two-year old
ioblolly saplings. Now that planta-
ton is a growth of trees feet high
and to inches in diameter III
another Is years $4,000 or more
will be realized from this so-consid-
cred worthless tract.
For the raising of loblolly there is
available in / 1 counties of Maryland
about SO per cent of the 1.646,000
acres therein contained.
fro
the lower end of Maryland he sees
piled beside railroad sidings mine
props, short piling and cord wood.
Trainloads of loblolly are moved each
day, and the wonder is where is all
comes from. 1t is going about 100
per cent faster than it Is coming land
If the use of wood is to continue it
seems that a good investment for
ones children is to take few days
fin winter and plant few acres,
-ess tifef repfant. for the sapfifgs are
already awaiting on the spot.
Pennsylvania few years ago was
sending millions of feet of lumber
out Of that State Today it is taxi
ing back every stick of timber suit
able for props it can obtain from the
Eastern Shore OF Maryland. Hun
dreds of orange plantations are now
being created in Florida. The acre
age of other fruits and potatoes is in
.ereasing south of Virginia, and it is
told that there is not enough of tim
Der left in the Southland to make the
containers needed within the next
decade.
1t is only recently that it has been
: brought TO the landowners of the
Shore that pine-tree cultivation can
be made worth while. When one pic
lures the marshy land of the lower
counties 40 years hence not Uttered
with struggling underground and
ugly blackened stumps but an order
ly range Of beautiful growing trees,
he will see the heritage of far-see-
Ing parent and know that there is
romance in the pine that came
back ;" w McC.
/ do the best know how; the
very best can; and I mean to
keep doing. SO until the end. If