Shortleaf pine primer (1980)Mattoon, W. R. (1980). Shortleaf pine primer. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin No. 1534. Retrieved from https://archive.org/stream/CAT87203889/farmbul1534#page/n1/mode/2up Timber is an agricultural crop—grown from the soil. Timber will be needed in the future; therefore young trees are valuable now. Timber is a local and national necessity, and the people will pay enough for it to cover the cost of production plus a fair profit to the grower. Timber is a farm savings bank to be drawn upon in times of extra need. If we check on it only to the extent of cutting the growth, or interest, the capital remains untouched and the investment continues undiminished. Thrifty growing timber rightly protected and cut often yields more profit than money at 6 per cent interest. Timber growing is usually not a major project on the farm, but timber products often bring in a substantial part of the farm income. Better methods of soil building and intensive soil cultivation have diminished the need for clearing up new lands for crop production. This favors the growing of timber as a crop on the less fertile or more broken parts of the farm, and makes it a part of the regular farm program. Shortleaf pine is one of the most profitable forest trees to grow as a crop over a large area of the uplands and mountains from New Jersey to Georgia and west to Oklahoma and Texas https://archive.org/stream/CAT87203889/farmbul1534#page/n1/mode/2up
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