“Clearing Up Not
Advised,” by F.H. Jeter, Extension Editor at N.C. State College, Raleigh, in
the April 1944 issue of The Southern
Planter
As farm fields are
cleared for the crops of 1944, the pungent, acrid smell of smoke hangs over
many North Carolina farms, particularly in the eastern part of the State where
the annual burning season has been under way. As a result the prospective game
supply is depleted, forest growth is destroyed, soil fertility is injured,
fences burned and at least one farm building has been lost, according to the observations
by one farm forester.
Following these
fires has come the usual number of salvage sales of timber. In one month, four
cases of this kind have been noted in one county involving 906 acres of burned
timber. In two of the cases, the timber was so severely burned that the owners
were advised to sell all merchantable, marketable timber as quickly as
possible. The fire was so hot in one of these cases that all the young growth
less than three inches was consumed. The larger, merchantable timber had streaks
of pitch running down the outside of the bark and some of the trees had been
burned off at the ground.
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