PULPWOOD INDUSTRY REPLANTS 26,000 ACRES TO TREES LAST YEAR Last ,year the pulp and paper industry in the South \\\ eries operated! by the industry. More would have] planted but the trees were not] available. These 26.000.000 trees replanted at least 26.000 acres of poorly stocked forest and aban doned farm land. Seven million! of the total were distributed free! ' of charge to small woodland owners for planting, with the only require ment being protection from -lire ! The remaining, 19 million were^ planted t>n lands owned by the in dustry. The trees cyst an averagej of $2.50 per thousand, to which is added labor cost of planting. Pra ? ? .That 49 "Dream Car Your Ford Dealer invites you to listen to the Frod AJItn Show, Sunday Lvenings?NBC network. Uston to the Ford Theater. Sunday Afternoons? NB'". ??tworlL See your newspaper for time atfd rtatioo. REECE-HAMPTON MOTOR CO., INC. Sylva, N. C. "V5ur Excited Ford Dealer s.:.c::lly all v !' thc\*e plantings will bo ready for a first pulpwood; thinning at or before 15 to 20 years'. of >ge. The pulpwood cut. in the South la.-t year approximated 8 million cords. If we assume the average! tree cut \va< 8 inches in diameter. | 4 1 _> l'eet above the ground, about' ten trees .of that size are required, to make a standard cord of*stack-l ed wood. That means~ aboU! . 80 million trees were cut for pulp-! wood. Members of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Associa tion. who represent 90 percent of the total pulpwood produced in the South, were responsible foi^ replanting 26 million of these trees.1 Th:> is a major contribution in' assisting in keeping the forest land of the South growing full crops! of tree.s In addition to the replant-' ing activities of the industry, it also encourages full fire protection' and improved cutting practices on the l(>t) million acres of privately owned and naturally stocke^for e>ts in the area. FARMERS GIVEN WARNING ON LIGHTNING HAZARDS "Lightning ? nature's .artillery ? causes 37 per cent of all farm fires," M. L. Snipes, county agent for the State College Extension Service, asserted today. "Each year, he pointed, out, lightning destroys approximately $20,000,060 worth of farm property in the United States. It takes the lives of 50T) people, and injures 1,300 others ? and the lion's shfcre of these victims are farm residents, according to re ords of the National Safety Coun cil. This is the picture ? correct and unexaggerated. And a horrible picture it is because , the greater part of these tragedies could be prevented. Lightning tends to strike* the highest point in the vicinity. This! may be a barn, tree, or a man working in the lield. "A building adequately equip ped with lightning rods affords the best protection," according to the county agent. "If you are working in a field and do not have time to seek tiie protection of a rodded building, lie down in a low spot in tiie lield, away from wire fen ces, trees, livestock, and machin ery. Avoid seeking shelter under trees, particularly lone trees or| small groves. Wirq^fences and ma-j chinery. should alVo be avoided' during electrical storms because they may attract lightning." Lightning rods, he continued,! provide good protection when properly installed. This means that! the rod must have a definite con nection to an effective ground. Periodic check-ups should be made to determine that the rods are in satisfactory condition. The National Safety Council points flSt that protection can be prov ided for livestock by ground ing wire fences every 100 yards. Metal posts placed at least three feet in -the^ground provide good grounding for fences. It should be remembered that metal build ings or roofs afford no protection from lightning unless they are ad equately grounded. Production of cotton in North Carolina during 1947 totaled 452 OnO bales of 500 - pgund gros weight. This is 12,000 bales more than was produced from the 1946 crop. SAVE MONEY ON iEEDE SOYBEANS MILLET CANE ? AS6R0W GARDEN SEEDS FARMERS FEDERATION FARM SAFETY WEEK SLATED JULY 25-31 In proclaiming the period July 25-31 as National Farm Safety Week*. President Truman po.iflkout that "needless hazards on the- farms of our nation continue to cause thousands of accidents each year which could be prevented by a positive safety pre gram.7 Goal fur tne 1948 observance, which is sponsored by the Nn^~ tional Safety C.our.cil and the U. S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with a number of other organizations, is the elimination of at least 30 million farm hazards. Each farm family is being asked to accept responsibility for elminaju ing at ieast one hazard for every member of the family. Tiie long-range purposes of Na tional Farm Safety Week are to make every American farm and eveVy American farm resident as safe as, possible, to cut the annual toll of needless deaths and in juries to a minimum, and to make ^farm life safer, happier, and more prosperous. Estimates by National -Safety Council show a 52 per cent increase : SYLVA MUSIC HOUSE One Block Behind Hospital THE BEACHAM BASEMENT Everything in The World of Music Phone 178-J in motor vehicle deaths to farm residents from 1944 to 1947. In other types of accidents, about 4,300 workers were killed and ap proximately 300,000 workers were injured in 1947. Il the 1947 non work toll was similar to that of 1946, the National Safety Council believes the final figures will show 14,000 non-work deaths and 1,400^ 000 non-work injuries to farm res-' idents. Read Herald Want Ads. 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