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in our larm wood lots, we can t enlarge the boundary, nor is there any practical way of transplanting a 30-foot tree six to eight inches in diameter in order to make more room. If we adopt the plan of “leaving ’em alone and let 'em grow” we will lose some merchantable timber that simply gets crowded by more ingerous trees and dies; we will allow the growth rate of the others to slow to a mere fractional of an inch in diameter; and too the more hardy weed trees may take over and ruin our chances of ever making any real profitable timber to market. Now who wouldn't like to have a nice stand of “forest pine” to sell? What lumber man wouldn’t like to be able to find a nice uniform growth of big, thickly populated “forest pine”? Mose of 'em are gone. . . .
BUT at Meadow Grove there is a nice young stand of short leaf or Forest Pine. Lumbermen and pulpwood dealers have been after Wade. Massie to sell it. Thank goodness Mr. Massie didn’t do so.
One day while in the vicinity of Meadow Grove looking for a lost 4-H heifer, my eyes fell upon .the tops of these pine and immediately I made a mental note to 'check more closely, at my first opportunity. Last summer our Extension Forester, A.
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