By F.H. Jeter,
Extension Editor, N.C. State College, Raleigh, as published in the Wilmington Star, Feb. 25, 1946
John Gray, assistant forester, has been traveling in Lenoir,
Pamlico, Carteret, Craven and Jones counties and in Lenoir he ran across a man
who is growing a new home on two acres of land. This man is James Sutton of the
Buckleberry community who has two acres of fine loblolly pine timber bordered
by a drainage canal. The timber on this two-acre tract is now 45 years old and was
saved first by Mr. Sutton’s father and later by the son.
Both men have fought forest fires to protect it and right
now the younger Sutton is thinning the stand so as to secure fuel wood by
removing the poorly grown, ill-shaped trees. Mr. Gray says he saw a number of
the better individual pines containing over 600 board feet of sound lumber and
he estimates that Mr. Sutton will not only have enough timber for his home but
a good volume left over for building other structures about the home. All of it
will come from the small two-acre tract which has been preserved against loss
from fire.
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