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There are 112,000 acres (1950 Census) in farms in Rappahannock County of which about 30,000 acres are in trees. Income from forest products was around $12,470 (1953-1954) which is only 0.7% of 'our total, farm income. Thinkof it; better.than one fourth of our land in farms yielding less than l% of our farm income 1
Farmers have come a long way in past ten years when it comes to keeping down fires. I can recall my most vivid impression of Rappahannock during my ‘first spring' here back, in ’46 was seeing the horizon lined at night with brush and broom sedge fires. Thank God such a sight is most rare today. Yes, the farmer, the Forestry Service, those of us in the agricultural educational field, and especially Smokey Bear have come a long, long way. Let’s continue to make progress even at a faster rate.
What can we do ? What can you do? A lot more than any of us realize once we feel the desire from within and follow up with just a little bit of do. We used to move about 3 million feet of timber fcr year. NoW Farm Forester, Bill Vernam says it is about one million feet—that is in mature trees that have been marked by the Forestry Service. Actually Bill hasn’t been in these parts so very long so'it could well be that we used to market three or four times that much.
Lucio-KHby says let’s stop timber scavengers. Let’s stop the fellows who cut indiscriminantly. Let’s stop him by building up the desire of the land owner himself not to take all—even the young immature trees. Let’s get people to start thinking about tree plantings before garden planting time, after the state forestry nursery has sold out. Let’s start planting in November—let’s start ordering trees now. Order blanks are available through Raymond Johnson and at this office.
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