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THE BAIWWELL PEOPLE-SENTINEL, BARNWELL, SOUTH CAROLINA
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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.
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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.
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THE STATE FARMER SECTION
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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-
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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-
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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.
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Co., Charleston, S. C.
mbar stand improvemont is damonstratod in mixad hardwoods and pines on
Farm of E. H. Brookshiro, Caldwell County, N. C.
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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
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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
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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. One
building lot opposite school house,
easy terms. Fcr furthar information
apply to Mrs. P. J. Drew, Barnwell. tf v
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