Show unproductive idle land made to yield profits krofl tb idle land like idle labor la Is a detriment to any county taxes must be paid on all land why not grow a crop of timber on worn out san sandy dy broken or wet lands not needed tor for agriculture this pertinent question for farmers Is answered by W K R mattoon extension forester with the united states department ment of agriculture who reminds us that there are several million acres of such land which should be producing timber because it Is the most profitable crop that can be grown on such lands timberland that has been ert crt heavily and burned nver ver usually has so few seed bearing trees that it does doea not get well set in young growth all ali sorts of weed trees come in like sweet gums sassafras hersl persimmon mon and others often preventing the wore more va valuable leable trees from coining in pines are easily propagated and denuded lands can be made to grow a full crop of pine with a little effort experiments show that slash pine pin eseed seed can be successfully sown on wet lands such as savannah or crawfish ion lands d about two pounds of seed per acre should be used sowings bowings on land with one years gross grass have given better results than on freshly burned over land |