Soil Conservation News
Spare Time Can Be
Used By Farmers
For Woodland Work
By Nat B. White
Soil Conservation Service
Warren County farmers are
learning to manage their tim
ber as a crop. This timber
crop needs to be weeded, thin
ned, and harvested in ? plan
ned and systematic way just
as with other farm crops. Far
mers can spend their spare time i
during the winter to excellent |
advantage working In their j
woodlands. They can get an j
Income from the woodland pro- |
ducts they harvest and sell,
and Improve the timber stands
to produce more In years to
come.
The Warren Soli Conserva
tion District is one source of
assistance offered to farmers
wishing to manage their wood
lands. In preparing a Con
servation Plan the Soil Con
servation Service technician
advises the farmer on manag
ing his woodlands for maximum
income. The farm plan con
tains a soils map that shows |
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Roy Pitt man of Grove Hill looks over a good stand
of loblolly pine that has recently been thinned for pulp
wood. The farmer realized an Income from the sale
of pulpwood, and the stand Is growing saw timber faster
than before.
| what woodland crop can be
i grown at each location, what the
soil is capable of producing,
|and how often the growing trees
! should be thinned.
There are several foresters
j available to Warren County
| farmers at no cost to make these
stands. After being shown for
i a short period the farmer
himself can do an acceptable
job of marking the timber stand
for an improvement out. After
the stand is marked the farmer
can cut the pulpwood himself or
sell It to a pulpwood dealer.
It has been said, "You can't
have your cake and eat it too".
In managing farm woodlands
a farmer can harvest pulpwood
i from his stand and leave the
j stand growing more timber than
before In growing saw timber
' pulpwood is a very profitable
I by-product that will be lost if
i not harvested. When the su
! pressed trees are cut out crop
I trees grow much faster and a
! larger volume of saw timber
| can be harvested at a much
i earlier date.
The time a farmer spends
j improving his woodlands will
pay him well. Not only will
he receive an immediate income
for woodland products sold but
an inc rease in Income for many
years come.
Roof-Thatching Craft
Reviving In England
WASHINGTON-Be it ever so
humble, a thatched cottage is
becoming a luxury in England.
Consequently, a postwar de
cision in the art of thatching
has been reversed, the National
Geographic Society says. The
country's 750 craftsmen are
hard pressed to meet the de
mand for their highly skilled
services.
The price of emphatic rust
icity now comes high. A roof
of Norfolk reeds, the most dur
able covering, costs up to 400
pounds ($1,120), but it will last
60 to 80 years if maintained
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properly. Devon reed remains !
Intact for 25 to 40 years, wheat i
straw 10 to 20.
Whatever the material, a top
ping of snug, thick, tawny, well
laid thatch-will keep a cottage
cooler In summer and warmer
in winter, admirers say, than
factory-made roofing.
FOUR MILLION REEDS
A master thatcher needs deft
fingers, perhaps two months of
time, and some four million
reeds or straws cut in five
foot lengths to cover a cottage
of average size. His tools are
tried and true?mallet, trim
Cards Oi
Thanks
Copy for cards of thanks
must be in this office by
Tuesday night, earlier if
possible, accompanied by
$100 to cover cost of in
sertion
We wish to express our
sincere th.irks to relatives
for the cirds, flowers, food
and many other deeds of
kindness shown us at the
death of our father and
grandfather, tar. Mack Steven
enson, who passed away on
Januarv 2. 1964.
THE CHILDREN and
GRANDCHILDREN.
We wish to express our an
nreciation to our eood neigh
bors and many friends for
their help and kindness show^
to us during the ' illness of
our husband and father. Cam
mie Dickerson.
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mine knife, sheep ihwi, uHi
lWftt which looks something
like ? lacrosse stick and Is
used to beat the bundles of
thatch Into place.
One present difficulty Is let
ting enough thatch. English
farmers are abandoning long
stemmed wheat In favor of a
hlgh-yelld, short variety.
There are plenty of reeds; but as
the London Sunday Times has
observed, Norfolk people find it
an "uncongenial occupation" to
cut reeds while standing knee
deep In Icy water with north
easters blowing In their faces.
Though a thatched cottage Is
possibly the most charmingly
bucolic residence ever created
bv man, thatching In early
England was merely a matter
of making do with materials at
hand. A small landowner built
his home of local stone or brick,
timbered #lth wood from his
forests, and topped wltlrreeds
or straw grown In the same
county.
The British scholar Pals
grave, tutor of Henry Vin's
daughter Mary, wrote peevishly
In 1530's "I am but a poore j
man, sythe 1 can not tyle my
house, I must be faynetothacke'
It."
Colonists brought thatching, I
essentially an English art, to j
the New World, They laid that-j
ched roofs over log cabins and
split-board huts. But Amer
ica's weather was harsh, and
thatching never really caught
on.
AUSTERITY' BROUGHT
DECLINE
In England, the proud craft |
was handed from father to son {
century after century. It went j
into a decline and seemed doom
ed?except for replacement of
thatches on historical land- j
marks such as Anne Hathaway's j
cottage?when England entered j
a threadbare austerity after |
World War II. Thatched roofs J
became rare in places where j
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they had been a feast tor th?
eyes. It waa not uncommon
to a?* fin* old thatches shame
lessly patched with sheets of
corrugated Iron.
The British Government did
much to save thatching with an
apprenticeship prograr which
attracted young recruits to the
trade. The British Rural In
dustries Bureau estimates the
present number of thatched cot
tages at 50,000 to 60,000.
Craftsmen have waiting llata of I
Many that chart 11 va peaceful
ly nomadic Uvas, moving from
Job to Job In comfortable house
trailers. One thatching family
family has become ao prosper
ous that the father drives a
Rolls-Royce, the son a Jaguar.
The thatching trade urges
householders to give their
expensive new rooftops loving
care.
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