Sate Forester
Concerned Over
Forests' Future
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Bitchier Fears That Tree
Cutting Without Proper
Regard For Future WiH
End In Disaster
(By W. K. Beiohler,
State Forester)
_ About 80 percent of the logs,
pufcwood, poles, piling and other
foMet products used by North
Carolina's forest industries come
trrjm farm woodlands and other
small timberland holdings. Three
out of every four owners of those
small timber tracts are not cut
ting their timber to their own
best advantage. What trees are
left are often finished-off by re
peated wild fires and unrestrict
ed grazing of young seedling by
cattle, hogs and sheep.
Much of the destructive cutting
in our State can be blamed on
the lack of adequate technical
assistance to the farm owners.
Under the Norris-Doxey Farm
Forestry Act 7 farm foresters'
cooperatively employed by the N. j
C. Department and Development J
(Division of Forestry) and the
Federal government are giving
free service to farmers and small
woodland owners. It is probable
that 2 more Farm Foresters will
be employed shortly as result of
increased support of the State's
forestry program by the 1949
that we have. However, with this
limited help, we can only hope
but to scratch the surface of the
forestry job that we must do if
we are insure our forest farmers
of a steady income from their
j timberjands, and our forest in
J dustries of a continuous supply
| of wood.
Farmers and landowners in the
Whiteville area should contact the
Division of Forestry's District
Office here in Whiteville where
district Forester Joe Herlevich,
Assistant District Forester F. N.
Craven and Farm Forester D. E.
Coleman will be glad to discuss
any forestry problems and give
"In the Woods'' assistance to
people in this area.
Something Different
After receiving $100 for one of
his horses, a farmer was paid
another J50 for bringing the an
imal into town, 525 for getting it
through a revolving door, J15 for
bringing it up to the buyer's ap
artment in the elevator, and J10
for placing the horse in the
man's bath tub. Then, to his a
mazement, the fanner was asked
to shoot the horse.
When asked why he had spent
so much money just to have the
horse shot in his bath tub, the
buyer replied: "You see, I share
this apartment with a man who
comes in every night, slams the
door, slaps me on the back and
shouts, 'What's new?' Now I can
tell him, 'There's a dead horse
in the bath tub!'"
Baby Tonic
Young Bride: "That baby
tonic you advertised?", she be
gan, "does it really make babies
bigger and stronger?"
Druggist: "We sell lots of It,
and we've never had a com
plaint."
"Well, I'll take a bottle,"
In fiye minutes she was back.
"I forgot to ask about this baby
tonic, who takes it?me or my
husband?"
"KING JAMES'
(Continued from page one)
the outside was of gilded leather,
and within was a receiver of glass
or metal, which would hold about
a pound of tobacco, a kind of
collar connected the receiver with
the oas^, and on every aide the
box was pierced with holes for
the pipes."
lie honor of being the fir?t
female smoker in England is due
to Queen Elizabeth, who copied
the habit from Raleigh, and was
in tvm imitated by ladies of her
ootgt. There was another claim
ant for this honor in the person
of one Molly Cutpurse, a low
woman famous for her follies and
crimes, but upon examination it
was found that the distinction be
longed to the Virgin Queen. Moll
never laid aside her pipe Ull her
death in 1462.
She was an original genius, as
was shown by a direction In her
will, that her nephew, to whom
she left the hulk of her property,
"should not lay it out foolishly,
but get drunk with it while it
lasted".
Raleigh loved his pipe till the
day of his death. He smoked on
the morning of his execution
which, said a contemporary writ
er, "some formal persons were
scandalized at; but I think," he
adds, "twas well and property
done to settle his spirits."
On being asked if It pleased
him, "Aye," said Raleigh, "tis
indeed good if a man might tarry
by M !
Smoking soon spread through
all ranks and beeame universal.
Hie spectators at the theatres,
in Stakes pear?'? time, were per
mitted to sit on the stage during
the performance and puff away
vigorously at their pipes and to
bacco.
Smoking was also permitted in
Legislature.
D. E- Coleman is assigned to
the Whiteville District Office of
the State Forest Service as Farm
Forester. 4
The reliance that our forest
industries place on the timber
that comes from farw woodlands
makes it imperative .that .tJhey be
properly managed if they are to
I continue to sustain these indus
I tries.
j The State Department of Con
servation and Development faces
a big job in heipin# farmers to
(1) reforest barren and under
stocked lands, (2) protect their
lands from wildfires, (3) reduce
the damage to young trees from
grazing, and (4) refrain from
overcutting their timber. We are
doing our best to serve Tar Heel
farmers with the farm foresters
all other parts of the house. The
practice reached its climax about
1610. A common mode of smok-j
ing was to swallow the smoke
partially, and afterwards blow it ]
out through the nostrils.
This was called tobacco drink- j
iHg- In 1614 there were said to
be upwards of seveji thuosand
tobacco selling houses In Lon
don. Hie Virginia tobacco was us-;
ually imported in the leaf, tied
up in small loose bundles; the
Spanish tobacco mostly in balls
about the size of a man's head,
coarsely spun into a kind of thick
twine.
nie medical profession of that
period ascribed to tobacco extra
ordinary medicinal effects. The
"humor" of the body could only
be "purged" by tobacco. Those
humors were purged by "saliva
tion," a point which King James
disputes with great gravity.
Such was the prevalence of
this practice when the royal ped
ant wrote his "Counterblast,"
which, however, does not seem
to have produced much effect.
He denounces smoking as a
barbarous and beastly imitation
of godless and slavish Indians;
combats the Idea of its benefits
as a medicine, but, on the con
trary, contends that it will ren
der Britons effeminate, so the
land will produce no more great
warriors.
He predicts that British sol
diers, upon a march, will lag in
the rear, enjoying their pipes,
and thus be cut off by the enemy.
He dilates upon the extravagance
of this practice, "some of the
gentry bestowing 300 pounds,
some 400 pounds sterling, a year
upon this precious stink."
He avers that smoking "makes
a kitchen oftentimes in the in
ward parts of a man, soiling .and
infecting them with an unctuous
and oily kind of soot as hath been
found in some great tobaoco-tak
ers that after their deaths were
opened," ahd winds up by pron
ouncing it "a custom loath-some
to the eye?hateful to the nose?
harmful to the brain?dangerous
to the lungs?and in the black,
stinking fumes thereof, nearest
resembling the horrid Stygian
fumes of the pit that is bottom'
less."
The Good Earth Goes To
(Continued from page one)
for Atlanta, is being succeeded
at the soil post by Dr. Werner
Nelson, a professor of soils at
N. C. State college.
EXPLAINS PROCESS
Making a tour of the testing of
fices, Dr. Reed explained how the'
samples are handled through the
complete analyzing process.
"First", he began, "the samples
are spread out on these tables,
dried and given a number for
identification. Then they're carried
across the hall to our lab, where
begins the work of analyzing
them for their content of avail
able plant foods and time, and
determining how acid or sour they
are." * I
The laboratory, a light, neatly
kept room, was the scene of much
activity. "We have five girl la/)
technicians," Dr. Reed said, "and
our lab is 'gadgeted' for rapid
work that still doesn't .sacrifice
our precision."
He pointed out numerous elec
trieal instruments which immense
ly speed up the analyzing pro-,
cedure.
"Here's one," he gestured, "that'
automatically determines how acid
or sour each particular sample
is. All you have to do Is put the
soil in this beaker and read the
result on a dial."
The director showed how the
soil i? electrically washed and
stirred with foot and hand con
trols. "We use our feet and both
hands in this lab," he smiled. !
INDIVIDUAL REPORTS. j
Otoe of .the secrets of success of,
the K. C. teetyw W0ce un
doubutedly lies in its policy of send
ing back the reports to each
farmer in individual letters.
"These personal tefctew," Seed
explained, '^ave g decided psy
cholopllcfil effect on the farmers.
When they receive (tur J<*ter, they
figure th?t this tyftptyw t? ?ie,
land not my neighbor." j
The director stated that the
only hitch to thip policy is the
treroendows amount of work in
volved. "We've avoided iofsa let
ters," he signed, but
we wonder about ^
when the rush season*
at the rate of over j?
a day."
In the letters the sety I
to say in as simple wj
possible the results ot t,
ais- Too, they inter,
suits in terms of lime j;t,
recommendations and St.
of other managerial pr**
will aid the farmer.
"Most of all," Rud !
try to impress upon t,
ers that our soil testinj
is not supposed to be ^
they're in trouble , bet \
them out of trouble."
This being the slack >
]the year, Reed stressed 1
service would like for
to send in their samp
"We can give them ar. 4,
their samples within t*0,
days now." He said,
during the rush period, j
anywhere from seven to j
Reed said that, in geie
soil testing service has tog
In the area east of r
so-called Coastal Plait,
are more likely to be
high in phosphorous, VjT,
potash.
In the Piedmont and \
areas, he explained, the 1
Is reversed?there is a
ably lower amount of pfeL
than in the East, but 73
what better amount of]
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