In Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Oklahoma, over 60 per cent.

of all the forest land is on farms.
The Government says timber raising is very profitable in the Eastern States because there is plenty of cheap land which is not suitable for farming, while the rainfall is abundant and favors rapid tree growth.

Furthermore, there are many large cities which use enormous supplies of lumber.

The transportation facilities, both rail and water, are excellent.

This section is a long distance from the last of the virgin forests of the Pacific Coast country.
The farms that reported at the last census sold an average of about $82 worth of tree crop products a year.