Up n request, a Virginia Forest Service representative will exam ine a proposed planting site and recommend species of trees which shruld be planted. Mr. Brierley said. A forester'will also aid the owner in planting practices and techniques which will assure best results. Seedlings are inexpensive to landowners because they arc grown and sold by the Virginia Forest Service for the purpose of reforestation. F’or example, prices per 1000 F. O. B nursery are Loblollv Pine. Virginia Pine and Black Locust. $4; and Red Pine. White Pine. Yellow Poplar. Black Walnut, and Red Cedar. $6. A 50 cents charge for delivery made to the nearest Railway Ex press Office, or central point in county, will be made. "The Virginia Forest Service urges each landowner to take careful stock of all acres owned and submit an rider as soon as possible for the number of trees required to make idle acres profit able. Remember, a seedling plant ed today will be the timber of to morrow,’ 'Mr. Carter said Idle Acres Is each acre on the farm pro ductive. Mr. Brierley asks farm ers in tins area. Farm manage ment investigations show that on almost every farm a portion of the area is carried at a loss and a large percentage of. farms are un profitable. In many cases, it has been noted that an operator act ually paid some thing for the privilege of working, he pointed out. According to Mr. Carter, un complimentary things are said abaut an unprofitable dairy cow. tw-> ^oaMer supported from the profits of the remainder of the ' o-rH but on many farms the un profitable cow is not the only hoarder. Low yielding acres, like boarder cows, are fatal to success ful farming. Unprofitable acres can not al ways be disposed of as readily as boarder cows, but they can be improved until they become pro fitable. Often it is not profitable to cultivate such land in an agri cultural crop, but there is another type of crop which will assure a profit. This crop is trees. Too often farmers are inclined to take the timber cr^n for granted, but its place is high when one considers the necessity, price, and demand for it. End Of Season "Now is the time for landown ers to take stock of each acre and determine if it is producing its maximum amount of profit." Mr. Carter said. "The forest tree planting season for 1953 is now (Continued cn Pacje 7'

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