The Wilmington morning star., 1940-11-11
WINTER HARVEST
Time IN W00DL0TS
No Better Time Of Year To
Begin Harvesting TIM
Der From Farms

November, december duo JdHs
uary are not generally regarded
as harvest months on the farm.
But R. w. Graeber, Extension for.
ester of N. c. State college, says
there is no better time of the
year than right now to begin har-
vesting timber from the farm
woodlot for lumber, poles, fence
posts and pulpwood.
In fact, Graeber has compiled a
farm forestry calendar which
reads as follows:
November-Q } Make aprli-
cation through your county farm
agent for forest tree seedlings to
be planted on idle acres; (2) begin
the planting of black locust, yell
low poplar, white and green ASH,
and black walnut seedlings; and
| (3) begin the harvest of timber for
lumber, poles, fence posts, pulp
wood and piling.
December-Q) Check over your
erosion problems, build brush
dams in gullies, and pillow and
mulch eroded areas as prepa1a-
ton for trees planting; (2) crack
walnuts for the Christmas trade;
and (3) market cedar, holly, pines,
and other material for Christmas
decorations.
January-1) Harvest firewood
for the home and tobacco-curing
wood from timber Trimmings and
Gull trees, leaving the better trees
to grow into lumber and other
commercial products; ca leave an
occasional dead snag for the wood
peckers, den trees for small ami
mails, and food trees for birds and
other wildlife especially at the
fence borders; and 90 plant pines
in the Coastal Plain on idle acres
of abandoned cropland, or on cut
over or burned lands where no
seed trees were left.
Other Planting Dates
A continuation Of the farm for
estry calendar would show that
Graeber recommends the planting
of pines in the Piedmont section
in February, and the planting of
pines, locusts and other trees in
the mountain area in March.
In a further appeal, the Exten-
sion specialist says: "A forest far
mer must not overlook his mar
kets. North Carolina is typical Of
most southern states in providing
a varied market for many COM
mercial forest products. Check
over the list of possible markets
and determine how many S C h
markets are in reach of you, and
how many of these forest products
you can grow and harvest on your
farm"
Graeber provided the following
list of marketable products from
various species of trees: Lumber
from pine, oak, poplar, gum, ma
pie, beech, birch walnut, cherry,
sycamore, Eastwood, etc. P e S
and piling from pine, white oak,
pin oak, cypress, juniper and black
locust. Pulpwood from pine, gum,
soft maple, Eastwood, cucumber,
popular, hemlock, etc.
Veneers from poplar, gum white
oak, northern red oak, sycamore.
walnut, etc. Handles from ash and
hickory. Shuttles from dogwood.
Dimension stock for chairs and
furniture from hickory, ash, ma
pie, beech, birch poplar, oak, gum,
and walnut. Furniture, closet lin-
ing, oil and posts from red cedar.
Brush and basket material from
hickory, oak and willow. Excelsior
wood from pine and poplar. Christ
mas trees and greens from red
cedar, pine, holly. and r~ed-berried
shrubs. Seeding shade trees from
willow oak, water oak, basket oak,
and beech. Nuts from walnut, hick-
DRY and beech. And litter n
packing material from pine straw.
Help Maintain Markets
The State college man recon-.
mends that farmers cut timber
regularly and Systematically to
supply material for local industries
and thereby maintain markets on
a permanent basis.
AS to marketing methods, Grae-
Der poses a series of questions:
How do you sell your timber?
Do you sell blindly on the pur.
chaser's estimate as to volume
and quality? Do you walk through
the woods and 'guess-timate' on
the volume a given tract of tim
Der will cut? Or do you scale each
tree and make a record of the
volume? Or, even better, do you
scale each tree and mark it to be
cut, and then sell only the marked
trees with a contract requiring the
purchaser to protect the remain
ing stand?
Do you advertise for bids or sell
to the first prospective customer
who comes along? Do you sell
timber for a lump-sum or by
measure after the trees are cut?
Lump-sum sales are often good
and probably the best sales meth
cd if you have scaled your tim.
Der and know the volume.