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Title:
Planting experiement at Piedmont Experiment Station
Description:
Transcribed from back of photo: 409 Farm Forestry Series 1931 by R.W. Graeber, Extension Forester Sixty-one farmers and farm boys from four counties attended this meeting in the "Bob Scott Forest Plantation" at the Piedmont Experiment Station, Statesville, N.C. Jan. 21, 1931. In this planting experiment we have 6 acres of pines growing on eroded red land too poor to cultivate. The planting included longleaf, loblolly, shortleaf, slash.
Topics:
Community and Extension
Forestry
Subjects:
Farms
Forests and forestry -- North Carolina
Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda)
Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)
Shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata)
Slash pine
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ua023_007-005-bx0015-008-010
Created Date:
Names:
Piedmont Experiment Station (Salisbury, N.C.) more info on Piedmont Experiment Station (Salisbury, N.C.) 
Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 more info on Graeber, R. W. (Robert Walter), 1888-1967 
Location:
Statesville (N.C.)
Digital Project:
University Archives Photographs