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i jj IURSDAY, MARCH 12TH, 1936. ^ THE BAIWWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA FAGBTm HERB AND HEREABOUTS. Dr. L. T. Claytcr spent Sunday in iconton, Ga., with his brother. Capit. F. V.’James, of Denmark was business visiter ia town Friday. Tt T — Miss Rachel Gleaton is the guest of relatives and friends ih Columbia this wee^. Mr. and Mrs. Dan M. Hartley, of Abbeville, spent the week-end in Barn well with relatives and friends. -« J—* l I atr ' 7n ^| Si young MOTH^S “ ,U,ou ' ■‘dosing.-. At . i Why Gulf is Gas for March ' X THE STATE FARMER SECTION •V PAGE THREE hades of Northwest China! * lcH Year in the Carolinas 6,400 Trains of 70 Cars Each Go Up in Smoke By A STAFF WRITER HINK of a stack of wood six feet high and four feet wide ex tending from the Atlantic to the ocean and back again with left over to reach from Charlos- C., to Chicago. t |s should give you some idea of the ide of the 6,900,000 cords of fire that farmers of the Carolinas (annually, each fanner using an pc of around 15 cords a year to heal )me, cook meals and cure the to- |crop. move this wood that Carolina |rs convert into heat, ashes and each year would take 6,4<k) trains I cars each! Shortage Stark Raality farmers are doing comparatively |to safeguard and replenish the for- r r ests from which they take this wood. Is it any wonder farm leaders are becoming alarmed over the approaching wood shortage—a shortage that is al ready a stark reality in such North Caro lina counties as Edgecombe, Wilson and Pitt where farmers last year were forced to go 50 miles to buy wood and then haul it home in order to cure their to bacco. Shades of Northwestern China! There farmers years ago cut down the trees on the slopes and uplands. They tried to put every acre into intensive crops—but the slopes and uplands could not continuously bear intensive cultiva tion. The rain, no longer held back by trees and grass, rushed down from the mountains.. It carried the soil away. Millions of acres of sloping uplands be- ... L' - o&igrX- •-•4 m ’ -] oblolly pin* at Piadmant Exparimant Station, Statasvilla^ N. C. Ona-yaar dlings war* plantad an poor, orodod eacil clay in Fobruary of 1927. This pic- was mad* in August of last yoar. VW AWV/ASS ^ A* Co., Charleston, S. C. mbar stand improvemont is damonstratod in mixad hardwoods and pines on Farm of E. H. Brookshiro, Caldwell County, N. C. i+.+y* X, d/r Black locust fivs years after planting on an eroded cecil clay hill on the farm of tho W. E. Morrison estate, Iredell, N. C. came waste and millions of people were forced jo leave the higher lands and set tle in dense hordes on the alluvial plains bordering the rivers. Grain Roots for Fuel And today in China wood is so scarce that even the roots of grain crops are dug up and used for fuel! Physically, China is the farthest point from the Carolinas, but at the rate we are now going every day finds the states made famous by the long leaf pine ap proaching more closely China’s predica ment of a depleted forest. “What can we do about it ?” we asked our friend, R. W. CJraeber, extension forester at N. C. State College. TTie answer: Conserve the forests that are still left and practice reforestation by planting trees on idle lands before it is too late. “We must use common sense in wood cutting,” declared (iraeber. "When a fanner thins corn or chops cotton, he doesn’t go to the edge of the field and cut the first four or five rows down. Yet we see thousands of fanners who, when cutting firewood, go to the edge ot the timber field and clear cut a strip. ' System Nacassary “Neither do you see a farmer cut the best stalks of. corn and leave the crippled corn, the cockleburs and other weeds. Yet you sec thousands of farmers cut ting straight, clear pines, good white oaks, clear hickories, or saleable ash, while leaving such trees as crippled, twisted pines, black jack and scarlet oaks, sour wood, black gum and others which are just weeds among our better tree • 99 species. Graeber went on to say that most Carolina farmers can increase the aver age annual wood growth from the pres- . ent one-half cord per acre to a full cord or even more by following a definite system of thinning the over-crowded stands and culling diseased, crippled, and otherwise defective trees in any type of stand. This policy gives the better spe cies a chance to grow and makes possible a restocking of the better species in the more open stands after such an improve ment cutting. 'Hie first forest planting in North Carolina was made by Jacob Tickle, a small but far-seeing farmer in Alamance County—small because his land holdings were not great, far-seeing because 48 years ago he had the initiative and fore sight to reclaim 14 acres of gullies by planting them in pines. T oday the forest on what was once gullies is worth for fuel alone from $75 to $100 an acre, but what is more im portant, Tickle charted a course which other farmers may well follow. “As a rule, forest trees should be planted in idle, open fields not 'suited* for the annual crops,” said Oraeber. ‘T>arge openings in the woods where root competition is not too great may be planted. In the mountains and uppo Piedmont where woods are open or poor ly stocked, under plantings of white pine,'red pine, or Norway spruce is ad visable. Black locust and pines are the best species for eroding lands. Black walnuts should be planted as individual trees on every farm. Consult County Agont For general planting, Graeber recom mended spacing forest trees six feet by seven feet, this requiring 1,000 trees per acre. In jeclaiming gullies, a closet spacing may be advisable. The broad-leaved or deciduous trees may be planted from Nov. 1 to April 30. Plant pines and other evergreens in winter and early spring. Your county agent will be glad to give you the source of trees and make recommendations. “Plant the seedlings,” Graeber said, “immediately after they are secured it possible. Otherwise, heel-in, getting the roots well covered and moist. When the package of seedling trees is opened do not expose the roots to sunlight and air. While planting, keep the roots moist in a bucket with thick, creamy mud, made with clay and water. Plant trees at same depth as they grew in the nursery. Thinning demonstration in Loblolly shortlaaf pine* (mixod stand) on tho farm of W. T. Parham, Vaneo County, N. C. Aftor cutting 13 1-2 cords of firswood< from tho culls, 266 trees were left. A. V.A. VIA A 2-27-6jtc MEN WANTED for Rawleigh routes of 800 families. Reliable hustler should start earning $25 weekly and increase rapidly. Write today. Raw leigh, Dept. SCC-8-S, Richmond, Va. FOR SALE.—Two 60-acres farms near Barnwell, on easy terms. 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