Excerpt from Guidelines for Direct-Seeding Loblolly Pine Loblolly seed can readily be kept for 5 years or more. High viability will be maintained if the seed is dried to 8 or 10 percent moisture content, placed in sealed containers, and stored at a temperature between 0°f. And 3z°f. Four prerequisites for successful storage are: (1) collection of fully ripe cones, (2) careful stor age of cones in a well-ventilated building to prevent molding before they go into the kiln, (3) processing of cones within 60 days after collection, and (4) placing the seed in cold storage immediately after processing. The ease of storing loblolly seed makes pos sible substantial savings. Supplies collected in bumper years can be saved for use in lean years. Not only are cones cheapest when they are most abundant, but seed yields are greatest. Thus, in years of heavy cone crops, yields often average 114 pounds of seed per bushel 'of cones, as contrasted to 1/z to 3a]. Pound when cones are relatively scarce. Pour several gallons of water into the drum about every 2 weeks to keep the moss thoroughly wet, but not saturated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.