Fletcher's State Rights Farming. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 1937 Page: 4 of 16
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FLETCHER’S STATE RIGHTS FARMING
December, 1937
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Few people fully appreciate the
immense value of our woodland
areas. But the appreciation for
these resources is rapidly increasing.
Consider the state of Arkansas, for
instance. Two-thirds of the state is
yet covered with trees. A large part
of the 22,000,000 acres of trees is
land that is poor, steep, stony or too
wet for agricultural purposes, and
the realization is dawning that in or-
der to put these areas into the best
possible use, we should continue to
grow trees upon it.
Before 1890' much forest land was
cleared off for farming, but large
tracts of land not so badly needed
was left untouched. A small amount
of timber was cut in those earlier
years. But after 1890' the rapid
growth of the lumber industry play-
ed havoc to our original forests. The
drain upon the forests became heavy.
By 1909 the lumber industry had
reached its peak, and in that year
more than 2,000,000,000 board feet
of timber were cut. Since that year
the annual growth cut of timber has
gradually decreased.
Following the period of large scale
logging much of the land that had
previously been in forests was clear-
ed for agricultural use. Although
part of this newly cleared land prov-
ed profitable, most of it was not
suitable for farming and was aban-
doned. It is upon this cut over land
that our future forests must grow.
If the second crop of trees had
been permitted to grow unhindered
after the first trees were cut, many
millions of acres would now be yield-
ing a second crop of trees. But the
forests were not given proper protec-
tion, and more harm than help re-
sulted.
Long before the beginning of the
Twentieth Century, practice of set-
ting fire to the woods each year had
become a habit. Fires were so com-
mon in the woods that few trees were
given a chance to glow well. Millions
of young trees were killed, and huge
quantities of tree seeds were destroy-
ed. The reason given for the regu-
lar burning off the timbered areas
was that it would improve pastures.
Fifty years of burning has brought
no great improvement to pastures,
but such practice has destroyed bil-
lions of dollars worth of timber.
Even at this there are still many
people who set forests fires each sea-
son.
By 1933 the damage to forests by
reason of fires was so obvious, and
the great importance of a continued
lumber supply had become so evi-
dent, that a movement was started to
prevent further damage. The Ark-
ansas State Forestry Commission was
>ut on an active basis and given the
ask of preventing all forest fires
possible and of extinguishing fires
chat were not prevented.
The forests of this state are large-
ly privately owned, so the Federal
and State governments are not pay- tors of crees.
the model for the rest of the state.
The Region is divided into ten units
each of which contains about one
million acres of forest lands. These
units are for administration purposes,
the entire Region being handled as
a whole. In each protection unit
there is a district Ranger who has
charge of the work. From four to
eight steel lookout towers on high
points of land are erected in each
Unit, and a Towerman is stationed in
each one to watch for forest fires
during dry weather. To fight the
fires when they are discovered, there
are five to eight Rangers in each unit
and about 30 Forest Guards.
The Towermen are connected with
the men on the ground by a system
of forest telephone lines which
stretch over each Unit in the entire
Region. The Forestry Commission
has been authorized to use several
CCC camps, and these camps have
built towers and telephone lines free
of charge. In addition about two
thousand miles of truck roads
through the protected areas have
been built by CCC boys. These trails
are narrow roads over which a truck
may pass in carrying men to forest
fires.
The State Forestry Commission is
also growing seedling trees for use
by farmers in reforesting their poor
lands and in checking erosion. Such
young trees are available at the For-
est Nursery at Conway, where 4,-
500,000 one-year-old Black Locust
trees are raised each year. A new
nursery has been established at
Scott, and additional trees for the
various sections will be available at
the second nursery next year. The
seedling trees are available to farm-
ers and land owners at the cost of
production, which is about $2.50 per
1,000.
During the last year the acreage
burned over by forest fires was only
one-third of one percent of the areas
under protection. Prior to the es-
tablishment of such protection the
areas burned annually was about 15
per cent of the total. This reduction
shows the great value of forest pro-
tection. These figures show that
forest fires can be controlled.
Foresi fires arc largely caused by
people. People also need our for-
ests, and they are more valuable pro-
tected than burned. Man is doing a
wise thing in his own interest in pro-
tecting the forests. An accurate re-
cord shows that 99 per cent of the
2,010 fires battled oy the Arkansas
Forestry Commission was of human
origin. Only a lew fires originated
from lightning.
Our forests afford us a wonderful
opportunity to improve and retain
one of God’s greatest gifts to man-
kind. It is little short of an outrage
h.w the vast timberlands of North
America have been almost ruined in
many instances when these resources
could have been protected and saved
for the present anu future genera-
tions. For the purpose of assuring
a supply of building material in years
to come, a nature cover’s playground,
preservation of game and wild life,
flood control, prevention of terrible
dust storms and ct ier such benefits
we should make rhe most of the op-
portunity to be planters and protec-
ing the entire cost of forest protec-
ion, but the land owners receiving
(The author gives credit to David
Campbeu, Assistant State Forester,
such protection pay two cents per {for much of th: information pre-
icre. When this payment is made ■ sented in this art)* 1».)
the State Forestry Commission or-!
?anizes the protection work, and the
Federal government meets all ex-
penses on a dollar for dollar basis. ■
On January 1, 1936, there were
ibout 5,500,000 acres of privately
owned forest land under such pro-
action. The larger part of this was
olidly blocked in the southern sec-
tion of the state. This is Region
One or the Pine Region. There arc
wo small aieas in the northern part
Jf Arkansas, one just south of Har-
vison and the other near Hardy. Oth-
er sections will soon be placed undei
such protection. Preliminary work
las also been started in the Delta re-
gion of eastern Arkansas, and largo
areas of the bottomland country will
receive such protection.
The organization of Region One is
Comr'. *rcial fnl ires oceuring in
Texas uring October increased
sharply ..i number < ver both the pre-
ceding month and f it* like month last
year, th. Univers.ty of Texas Bureau
of Business Reset ich has announced.
Total 1 abilities ol the firms that
failed, however, v ere substantially
below t ose of the preceding month
and only slightly greater than those
of the corresponding month last
year. Failures totaied fourteen dur-
ing Octeuer, 133 p v cent more than
curing he preceding month and 56
par cen; more t i;< during October
last year, Avt e liability per
iailure as $12 J m, a decrease of
71 per cunt from September and 33
per cent from October, 1936.
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Davis, Fletcher. Fletcher's State Rights Farming. (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 1, 1937, newspaper, December 1, 1937; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth555466/m1/4/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.