How Money Grows on Trees #nn

A farmer named Jeb Sykes relates to his neighbor Tom Johnson the story of how he plans to develop his woodland into a profitable timber crop by allowing trees to grow for several years, demonstrating that land value will double with proper forest management. Johnson then recounts an anecdote about Posey Howell, a tree farmer in Mississippi's longleaf-slash pine section, who discovered that a hog had uprooted 407 longleaf and slash seedlings while foraging—illustrating over fifteen years of potential tree growth destroyed in a single day. The comic emphasizes forest conservation and the economic value of managed woodland farming as an alternative agricultural enterprise.