economic conditions which are making reforestation practicable in 
some regions. 
ForestrY PrAacTICED BY LUMBER COMPANIES 
The Southern Pine Association has taken an advanced stand in 
promoting forestry in the interest of its members. According to a 
recent survey made by this association “in the ten states of Alabama, 
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, fifty-eight companies were practic- 
ing selective cutting, and thirty-nine companies endeavoring to man- 
age their timberlands so as to insure permanent operations.” A 
large southern hardwood-producing company has adopted a rea- 
sonable system of reforestation after a careful analysis of its pos- 
sibilities. In the North Carolina Pine region several companies 
are investigating methods of cutting to obtain the best possible 
reproduction of the stand. 
In New England there are many examples of successful forest 
practice. It is estimated that 9,000,000 acres, or nearly two-thirds 
of the forest land in Maine, are now under some degree of forest 
management. For over fifty years several large estates have been 
cutting to a rigid diameter limit, which has enabled cutting over 
many areas a second, a third and in some cases a fourth time. In 
Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire the general reforesta- 
tion movement specializing on white pine in wood lots, which started 
in a small way over two decades ago,, is constantly expanding. One 
of the largest box-board companies in that region has not only 
placed the bulk of its holdings under intensive management but has 
also established a well-equipped consultation service to aid farmers 
in their wood-lot problems. 
On the Pacific Coast, where timber scarcity is the most remote, 
interest in forestry, however, is not lagging. Many private owners 
of timber are having analysis made of their forest problems to ascer- 
tain the preliminary steps toward forest management. The recent 
advertisements of a group of West Coast lumber producers an- 
nounce their intentions of a permanent, sustained industry. The 
Long-Bell Lumber Company has acquired in Washington sufficient 
timberland to assure, under its present outlined plan of operations, 
a perpetual timber supply for its mills. The Crown Willamette 
Paper Company expects by 1936, through intensive cultivation, to 
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